Francis Pope Blessed thousands of bikers at a mass of air opened on the site of St Peter and then joined the Hells Angels.
The Hells Angels stood out like a thumb sore among a crowd of thousands at a mass for the day Evangelium Vitae in the Vatican. As part of a three day celebration of the anniversary of 110 years, Francis Pope blessed the Hells Angels and then... joined the group.
The engines have been booming at the start of the mass.
During the homily, Francis has warned that "power and pleasure", inter alia, lead to God "replaced by fleeting human idols that offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but ultimately to bring new forms of slavery and death".
A parade of Hell's Angels, 25 miles from the city of the port of Ostia through central Rome on Saturday prompted some residents to complain of traffic and noise. Thundering engines Harley almost drowned in the Latin recitation of the prayer of 'Our father' who accompanied Francis as he greeted the crowd before standing mass in his jeep sunroof, Francis drove to the top of the main boulevard leading to St. Peter's square, blessing thousands of people in what was a giant parking lot of Harley.
Some estimates say half a million Hells Angels from around the world came to Rome for the anniversary of four days of Harley-Davidson.
The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi stressed that it was probably a certain Catholic runners in the crowd and that, despite everything, everyone is welcome for a Pontifical mass.
"I know some great people who have big bikes," Lombardi said jokingly.
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