Arch
Rivalry
It was reported in The Tablet that, during the Greenbelt festival in
Northamptonshire, Archbishop Welby joked that the Pope was “better than
me” after being asked by a young child who would win in a fight between the
two.
“For a lot of reasons, the Pope would (win),” Welby said. “He’s got a
bigger stick than me. He’s got a bigger hat then me. He’s bigger than
me. He’s better than me.”
The archbishop added that when he first met the Pope, he was teased by
him. “[The Pope] looked at me and said: ‘I’m senior to you.’ He was
winding me up but I thought he was being serious.
I said, ‘Of course you are’, because I was terrified. And he said, it was
because he’d started on the Thursday and I started on the Saturday, ‘by two
days’."
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/
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