{"id":8840,"date":"2013-08-23T00:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/pope-francis-phones-teenage-student\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T00:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T00:44:42","slug":"pope-francis-phones-teenage-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/pope-francis-phones-teenage-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis phones teenage student"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Italian teenager who wrote to Pope Francis got a shock when the Catholic leader called him up for a chat — the latest example of the pontiff’s down-to-earth approach.<\/p>\n

Francis called up a journalist friend on the day of his election and even phoned a newspaper stand in Buenos Aires to cancel his subscription.<\/p>\n

Stefano Cabizza, a 19-year-old student from Padua in northeast Italy, had sent a letter to the pope, the local Il Gazzettino daily said on Thursday. <\/p>\n

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Pope Francis: surprise phone call to student<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

But he said he never expected the phone to ring and a voice on the other end to say: “Hello, it’s the pope”.<\/p>\n

Cabizza said that the two “laughed and chatted for eight minutes” and that Francis had blessed him.<\/p>\n

The pope, formerly the archbishop of Buenos Aires, makes many calls directly in a break with protocol under which calls are usually handled by aides or at least through the Vatican switchboard.<\/p>\n

He recently called an Italian man who was paralysed after a car accident and who recently lost his brother.<\/p>\n

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