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 ...

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!

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 ...