{"id":14831,"date":"2013-06-07T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T18:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=14831"},"modified":"2013-06-07T22:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T18:20:54","slug":"pope-francis-quips-he-did-not-want-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=14831","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis quips he did not want the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/3\u0540\u057c\u0578\u0574\u056b-\u054a\u0561\u057a\u0568-\u056f\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u0565\u056c-\u0567-\u0569\u0565-\u0579\u0567\u0580-\u0578\u0582\u0566\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u054a\u0561\u057a-\u0564\u0561\u057c\u0576\u0561\u056c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14832\" alt=\"3\u0540\u057c\u0578\u0574\u056b \u054a\u0561\u057a\u0568 \u056f\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u0565\u056c \u0567, \u0569\u0565 \u0579\u0567\u0580 \u0578\u0582\u0566\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u054a\u0561\u057a \u0564\u0561\u057c\u0576\u0561\u056c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/3\u0540\u057c\u0578\u0574\u056b-\u054a\u0561\u057a\u0568-\u056f\u0561\u057f\u0561\u056f\u0565\u056c-\u0567-\u0569\u0565-\u0579\u0567\u0580-\u0578\u0582\u0566\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u054a\u0561\u057a-\u0564\u0561\u057c\u0576\u0561\u056c.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Pope Francis joked about the difficulties of being head of the world&#8217;s Catholics, saying he never wanted the job, on Friday in unscripted comments in which he also said he had turned down luxury Vatican housing because it would be &#8220;boring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Someone who wants to be pope does not really like themselves,&#8221; the pontiff said laughing, in answer to a child&#8217;s query during a question-and-answer session with Jesuit school students in the Vatican.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I did not want to be pope,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>His predecessor Benedict XVI once said he had prayed to God not to be elected pope but that &#8220;evidently this time he didn&#8217;t listen to me.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Francis also told his audience he had decided not to move to the official papal apartments, staying in a residence hotel in the Vatican instead.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s a personality problem. I need to live with people. If I lived alone, I would feel a bit isolated and it wouldn&#8217;t be good for me,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It would be bad and boring,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis joked about the difficulties of being head of the world&#8217;s Catholics, saying he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}