{"id":2266,"date":"2008-02-01T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/02\/orange-you-glad-hes-our-pope.html"},"modified":"2008-02-01T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:46:00","slug":"orange-you-glad-hes-our-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/02\/orange-you-glad-hes-our-pope.html","title":{"rendered":"Orange you glad he’s our pope?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems Pope Benedict is also Pop Benedict. <\/p>\n

Soda pop<\/a>, to be exact: <\/p>\n

<\/a> Winston Churchill made no secret of his love of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her handbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta.<\/p>\n

When the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, visited the Vatican this week, he gave the Holy See a case of Holy Grail beer, brewed in North Yorkshire. The Pope, however, opted instead for the orange stuff.<\/p>\n

“He doesn’t normally drink,” Catholic priest Fr Tim Finigan tells Spy. “He prefers Fanta. I’m not really sure why, perhaps because it was originally created in Germany.”<\/p>\n

And what does Fanta make of its most famous customer?<\/p>\n

“We’re very flattered,” says a spokesman for Coca-Cola, which produces the fizzy drink.<\/p>\n

So might the Pope be fronting its next campaign? “I don’t think so,” he adds. “He’s not quite right for our target audience.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sweet. In every sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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