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Vatican scotches Frisky whisky joke by Francis.

Footage of the Pope holding up a bottle of Scotch and proclaiming it “the real water of life” was censored by the Vatican for a documentary about Scottish seminarians in Rome.

The broadcast featured him accepting a bottle of Oban 14 malt from a group of Scottish student priests at a reception at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace last year. Vatican officials insisted that quip by the Pope, 83, be cut from the film, which will be broadcast on BBC Scotland on Sunday.

Tony Kearney, the director, whose company Solus Productions made the one-hour observational documentary, Priest School, followed the seminarians over 18 months from 2018.

He said: “We filmed the students meeting the Pope in the Apostolic Palace. One of them was tasked with giving the Pope a bottle of malt, because they know he likes whisky.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...water-pope-joked-to-trainee-priests-6dlrxftr0

 

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Vatican scotches Frisky whisky joke by Francis. Footage of the Pope holding up a bottle of Scotch and proclaiming it “the real water of life” was censored by the Vatican for a documentary about Scottish seminarians in Rome.

The original gaelic word "Uisge" meant water, and the drink we call whiskey was along with all other distilled alcohols known as Aqua Vitae in Latin (water of life). It is interesting that people whose heritage can be traced to Skara Brae have a genetic mutation that allows them to drink whiskey without destroying their livers with amyl alcohols.

 

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Pope stricken by Dalek Syndrome.

Pope struggles to climb steps amid respiratory and mobility problems​

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/p...espiratory-and-mobility-problems-1597650.html