INQUIRER.net: Italian journalist says new pope called her first

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Italian journalist says new pope called her first Mar 15th 2013, 03:24 ROME—Just hours after his dramatic election as leader of the Catholic world, an Italian journalist in Rome said the first thing Pope Francis did was to call her up for a friendly chat.   "The phone rang... My son picked it up and it was the pope," Stefania Falasca, a former editor for a Catholic monthly, told Italian media.   "At home we just called him 'father', we never called him 'eminence.' I didn't know what to say. I asked him 'Father, what am I meant to call you? Holy Father?'" she said.   "He laughed and he told me 'The first phone call I wanted to make was to say hello to you, Gianni and the kids,'" she said.   Falasca is married... Keep on reading: Italian journalist says new pope called her first Media files: Francis-1st-Mass.jpg (image/jpeg)

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