INQUIRER.net: Pope Francis quips he did not want the job

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Pope Francis quips he did not want the job Jun 7th 2013, 11:57 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis joked about the difficulties of being head of the world'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 "boring". "Someone who wants to be pope does not really like themselves," the pontiff said laughing, in answer to a child's query during a question-and-answer session with Jesuit school students in the Vatican. "I did not want to be pope," he said. His predecessor Benedict XVI once said he had prayed to God not to be elected pope but that "evidently this time he didn't listen to me." Francis also told his audience he had decided not... Keep on reading: Pope Francis quips he did not want the job Media files: pope-francis8.jpg (image/jpeg)

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