Before Pope Francis became God’s enforcer, he moonlighted as a nightclub bouncer. ... Pope Francis worked as nightclub bouncer By . David K. Li. Published Dec. 3, 2013, 5:16 a.m. ET.

Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer. — Fact (@Fact) March 4, 2021. The Facts. Before Pope Francis, 84, assumed his holy title as leader of the Roman Catholic church in 2013, he was known ...

Before becoming head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis led an astonishing life, far from the gilded walls of the Vatican. Among the most surprising anecdotes: he worked as a nightclub bouncer ...

During a four-hour visit to a church near Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis shared with parishioners some of the finer points of his résumé, including a stint working as a bouncer.

Long before Pope Francis was drawing people back to church, he was keeping troublemakers out of a bar, ... and guarding the door as the bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub, ...

Pope Francis revealed that he once worked as a bouncer at a nightclub in Buenos Aires — and it's starting a big conversation on social media, calling Francis the coolest pope ever.

Pope Francis, who died at 88, had once worked as a nightclub bouncer, a fact that highlighted his humble beginnings. As the news of Pope Francis' demise spread across the world, an outpouring of ...

In 2013, the late Pope revealed he was once a club bouncer in his birth city of Buenos Aires while on a visit to a church in a working class suburb in Rome. While he did not go into details of the ...

He was also the first to have been a bouncer on the door of a Buenos Aires nightclub, a role that hints at how Pope Francis’s background was a little unusual and not the sort normally associated ...

Pope Francis passed away on April 21, 2025, at the age of 88, as announced by Vatican News. ... From nightclub bouncer to becoming a priest Yes, you read that right!