I wonder how good could pizza be if it came so far away?
I’m from Paris and the pizza there is good. Italian pizza too. I just think it’s outrageous to give the pope a box of pizza
I bet he ate it though
I don’t think it’s outrageous. It simply humanizes him. He is just a person after all.
This reminds me of a new thread about scrupulosity. Is it a sin to have pizza delivered long distance to the pope? And the question is not even “Was I right to do this?” but whether someone else committed a sin. I think that being a busybody is more likely to be a sin.
We’re talking a 5,000 mile journey from Chicago to Vatican City. I’d imagine the pizza went thru customs and was inspected. And it was probably 2 days old and no refrigeration which was probably not too bad. It was probably perfect pizza
But really, that’s sort of extravagant. You know pope Francis requested that the conclave (that elected pope Leo) they had to eat bland food. I heard it was super boring meals
Now pope Leo is eating in style with this gesture of a few slices (the box is very small and not a full pizza) all the way from Chicago
But like I said, France & Italy make good pizza too
Extravagant? Sure. A good idea? I doubt it. But initially, Jaques, you said it was an outrage. A mother flushing her tiny baby down the toilet—I call that an outrage. Long-distance pizza for the pope—I expect that the person meant well.
When I worked as a contractor in the Pentagon, we had a good colonel over us. When people got excited over unimportant things, he would say that the building wasn’t on fire and nobody was dying. And a lot of the people working there had been in situations where people were dying, and less than 20 years earlier the Pentagon had been on fire.
Pizza for the pope—it didn’t set the building on fire or kill anybody, which isn’t true of abortion pills.
This give me a little more respect for Pope Leo. I too love Pizza (hints my avatar ; )
It’s not an outrage until I say it’s an outrage. And it isn’t.
I actually own two pizzerias in New Jersey so I know a thing or 2 about pizza 
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Um, Jacques, you said it’s “outrageous”; what does that mean? I supposed it meant that you considered it an outrage.
Where are your pizzerias? I used to live in NJ; now I live in Pennsy but still go to NJ a few times a year.
That’s awesome! I have no desire to visit New Jersey nor New York, but maybe a good pizza would be worth a visit. My Wife and Doughter want to visit New York, but I’m still on the fence about.
The only other reason to visit New York is the Comedy Cellar.