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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...