Footage of Pope Francis holding up a bottle of Scotch and calling it “the real water of life” after being gifted it by Scot students was cut by Vatican censors.
Footage sees the Holy Father accepting the bottle of Oban malt from the student priests at a reception at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace last year.
But, the micro-state’s media insisted the Pope’s booze joke was cut from the film before being broadcast on Sunday. Director Tony Kearney, whose Solus Productions made the one-hour documentary Priest School, followed the Scots seminarians over 18 months in 2018 and 2019.
Mr Kearney said: “We filmed the students meeting with the Pope in the Apostolic Palace. One of them was tasked with giving the Pope a bottle of malt because they know he