Perhaps he meant to say “Pushing up daisies”

Perhaps he meant to say “Pushing up daisies”

An actual quote from an Italian news agency on the English portion of its web site.

“Over the last 12 months,” said the current Pope, “we have had five revered cardinals who kicked the bucket: Juan Carlos Aramburu, Jan Pieter Schotte, Corrado Bafile, Jaime Sin and, less than a month ago, Giuseppe Caprio.

Something tells me Pope Benedict used a different phrase than the Italian translator used in English.

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