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Pope Francis: a new biography that reveals the Pontiff’s quirky side
The Great Reformer
by Austen Ivereigh
Allen & Unwin, £20
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Throughout his life Pope Francis has attracted the most piquant nicknames.
That’s a mark, no doubt, of his outsized personality. Argentine Jesuits called him “Mona Lisa” because of his inscrutable behaviour during his difficult term as their leader.
John's University, Jamaica, is the author of “Pope Francis' Spirituality and Our Story” (Resurrection Press).
He was also once known as “Long Face”, on account of his sad and weary-looking features. Austen Ivereigh has discovered perhaps the most remarkable moniker of them all. In The Great Reformer, he says that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was known as “Irma la Douce” when teaching in his late 20s.
Why did pupils associate the saintly priest with the golden-hearted French prostitute, played by Shirley MacLaine, in the classic 1963 film? Apparently, because he “handed out punishments with an angelic face”.
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