Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD

On this picture from video made accessible by Javier Martinez Brocal of Rome Stories, Pope Francis leaves a report store in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of tango and milonga and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." Nevertheless it nonetheless got here as a one thing of a shock to see him popping out of a downtown Rome report store Tuesday night with a CD in hand, after making an unannounced go to that was caught on digital camera by a Vatican reporter who occurred to be close by.

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart “lifts you to God.”

Nevertheless it nonetheless got here as a one thing of a shock to see the 85-year-old pontiff popping out of a downtown Rome report store late Tuesday with a CD in hand. He had made an unannounced go to that was caught on digital camera by a Vatican reporter who occurred to be close by.

Javier Martinez-Brocal, director of the Rome Stories information company, mentioned he was within the neighborhood of Rome’s Pantheon when he observed a white Fiat 500 with Vatican license plates and a few police automobiles parked in entrance of the Stereosound store.

Francis had slipped inside and stayed for about 12 minutes, chatting with the homeowners, Martinez-Brocal reported.

They then recounted what had transpired: It seems the previous Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a buyer throughout his visits to Rome, and had promised them he’d come go to when he met with them on the Vatican.

Francis, an Argentine whose love of tango and milonga is well-known, didn’t purchase something. However the store homeowners gave him a CD of classical music, Martinez-Brocal wrote.