Google – AFP, 31 August 2013
Pope
Francis poses with young people in the Church of Saint Augustine
in Rome on
August 28, 2013 (Osservatore Romano/AFP/File, Francesco
Sforza)
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VATICAN
CITY — Pope Francis has broken protocol once again, appearing with a puzzled
look on his face in a "selfie" photo taken with a group of teenagers
visiting the Vatican.
The picture
appeared on the Facebook page of one of the youngsters, who used it as his
profile picture, and was going viral on social media on Saturday.
The picture
comes in the same week that the Oxford English Dictionary included the word
"selfie" to denote a self-taken photograph on a smartphone.
The young
believers were part of a church group from northern Italy who met with the
leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday and were seen going up
to him afterwards to take their photo.
"There
is no marketing behind these actions. The pope clearly likes being with people
while his predecessor liked being with books," said Beppe Severgnini,
columnist for the Corriere della Sera daily.
The
76-year-old pope, Latin America's first pontiff, has repeatedly broken with
Vatican tradition since being elected in March, including regularly picking up
the phone and calling ordinary people who write to him.
The photo
prompted bemused reactions on Twitter, with one user saying "Now I've seen
everything" and another quipping: "It's the end of the world as we
know it."
One
unenthused tweeter commented: "Just because Pope Francis poses for a
'selfie', doesn't make it okay!"
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