‘We brought him 4kg of ice-cream’: Pope Francis’s parlour shares papal favourites

Sebastian Padrón explains how ice-cream brought his family closer with fellow Argentinian and neighbour
When Sebastian Padrón opened his ice-cream parlour around the corner from Pope Francis’s home in Casa Santa Marta in Vatican City, his wife, Silvia, came up with a clever way of ingratiating her husband with his fellow Argentinian.
“She told me: ‘Go and bring an ice-cream to Pope Francis,’” said Padrón. “I said: ‘Impossible.’”
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