The times when pirates were stereotyped as young men in a college dorm are long past us.

Nowadays you can find copyright infringers throughout many cultures and all layers of society.

In the past we’ve discovered ‘pirates’ in the most unusual places, from the FBI, through major record labels and the U.S. Government to the Vatican.

This week we can add another location to the list, Osama Bin Laden’s former Abbottabad compound, where he was captured and killed on 2 May 2011.

The CIA has regularly released documents and information found on the premises. This week it added a massive treasure trove of 470,000 files, providing insight into the interests of one of the most notorious characters in recent history.

“Today’s release of recovered al-Qa‘ida letters, videos, audio files and other materials provides the opportunity for the American people to gain further insights into the plans and workings of this terrorist organization,” CIA Director Pompeo commented.

What caught our eye, however, is the material that the CIA chose not to release. This includes a host of pirated files, some more relevant than others.

For example, the computers contained pirated copies of the movies Antz, Batman Gotham Knight, Cars, Chicken Little, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Home on the Range and The Three Musketeers. Since these are children-oriented titles, it’s likely they served as entertainment for the kids living in the compound.

There was also other entertainment stored on the hard drives, including the games Final Fantasy VII and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, a Game Boy Advance emulator, porn, and anime.

Gizmodo has an overview of some of the weirdest movies, for those who are interested.

Not all content is irrelevant, though. The archive also contains files including the documentary “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden,” “CNN Presents: World’s Most Wanted,” “In the Footsteps of Bin Laden,” and “National Geographic: World’s Worst Venom.”

Or what about “National Geographic: Kung Fu Killers,” which reveals the ten deadliest Kung Fu weapons of all time, including miniature swords disguised as tobacco pipes.

There is, of course, no evidence that Osama Bin Laden watched any of these titles. Just as there’s no proof that he played any games. There were a lot of people in the compound and, while it makes for a good headline, the files are not directly tied to him.

That said, the claim that piracy supports terrorism suddenly gets a whole new meaning…

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Credit: Original compound image Sajjad Ali Qureshi

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Jase noticed his penis was one of the smaller in the bunch as a kid, when he used the communal showers after football and basketball practices. Now, public washing is strictly off limits—he'd rather drive home from the gym in his sweaty clothes and shower in the privacy of his own home.

Jase's insecurities about his 3.5-inch erection affect more than just his hygiene habits. When he was younger, condoms didn't stay on well, and that made sex more of an anxiety trip than it already was. In a recent bout of obsession, he gathered a "database" of scientific papers on penises and measured himself multiple times a day for several weeks to see how he sized up. Growing up, it shaped him socially, even when his pants were on. "I've always been an introvert and I feel that my low self-esteem, due to my size, was a main driver for this," says Jase, now 40.

Lots of guys can relate. Almost one in five American men are unhappy with the length of their erection, according to a recent study of more than 4,000 men, and another 15 percent have a problem with their girth. You won't be surprised to learn that the guys who thought their penises fell short had less sex than the penis-proud group. "Being small can be the heaviest of burdens. I'm genuinely afraid of everything and everybody alike," says David, 30. "I feel I just can't be truly sexually desirable to women with my size."

There's a lot of dick-shaming that perpetuates this idea. When Marco Rubio exposed Donald Trump's small hands, Trump felt the need to tell the whole country that his penis was perfectly fine, thanks. (On national television. During a presidential debate.) In a Fat Shack ad, a seductive blonde—lips parted, a trail of mustard dripping out of her mouth á la cum—holds a sandwich. "Four inches has never been so satisfying," the caption reads.

It goes beyond mainstream news and marketing and weasels its way into casual conversation. "A lot of the jokes we make in everyday life are often sexually related in one way or another," says Abraham Morgentaler, a urologist and the director of Men's Health Boston, whose practice focuses on the health effects of testosterone deficiency. "It's sort of standard humor for guys to josh each other about masculinity type stuff, including penis size."

Morgentaler calls men with dick fixations "peno-centric." The idea that the size of your junk validates you as a man might start as early as boyhood. "When we're younger and coming of age sexually, when there's a lack of sophistication about what it means, number one, to be a man, and number two to be a good lover, the thing that men can see and point to and certainly think about is really the penis," he says.

Boyhood is synonymous with inexperience, and sadly, we don't magically figure everything out as adults. Some guys may think they're small even when they're not, but for the ones who do fall left of the bell curve, the best way to get over it is by being realistic about what your penis "should" look like and how important it really is in the long term, Morgentaler says.

Lots of people never have the chance to see other people having healthy, real-life sex, so they might base their expectations on the sex they do see, usually in porn. But—shocker—porn is not real life. Those macho men are more than well endowed and that can give off the wrong idea, that you need to sport an eight- or nine-inch shaft (also, ow—but we'll get to that later) to satisfy your sex partners.

"If a guy watches 50 or 100 of these video clips, he's going to feel inadequate because he may be smaller than every one of those," Morgentaler says. "But those men are extremely unusual." When researchers sifted through data on more than 15,000 men, they found that the average penis is 3.6 inches soft and 5.2 inches erect. Nothing like many of the massive dicks we see on our laptops.

On a purely biological level, it's also irrational to think size has anything to do with your baby-making skills. "If it matters from an evolutionary standpoint, the best question would be, does it increase fertility?" says Robert Martin, an evolutionary biologist and adjunct professor at the University of Chicago. "The testes size indicates the potential of producing sperm, but I don't see any connection between penis size and anything that would be important in evolutionary terms." There's no evidence that primates have ever used their penises as a power display, he adds, and it may even have little to no effect on how physically desirable you are as a man.

Australian researchers generated 343 life-size male figures that ranged in body shape, body height, and penis size. They projected these "men" on a screen and asked 105 heterosexual women to rate how sexually attractive they were. The women cared most about body shape, which was responsible for 79.6 percent of attractiveness. (They preferred a triangular torso with wide shoulders and narrow hips.) Height came next with 6.1 percent, and penis size fell by the wayside, accounting for only 5.1 percent of attractiveness. "It seems to be a male preoccupation," Martin says.

It's a preoccupation that can be debilitating. Andy, 24, has never heard complaints from sex partners about his 4.7-inch erection, but he still can't shake the feeling that he's coming up a half-inch short. "It lingers in my mind throughout the day on a regular basis," he says. "It causes great anxiety and depression most of the time." Andy started to notice he was smaller than average when he was 19. Like Jase, he also measures a lot. "There [have] been days when I find myself spending a huge amount of time with a ruler next to my penis."

When he's naked in front of sex partners, he often tries to cut through the awkwardness of the initial reveal by being self-deprecating—"It's small, huh?"—but nobody has ever complained or agreed.

It's not crazy that Andy's partners aren't throwing him shade. When it's part of the equation, the penis is an important part of sex—whether it's the real thing or the dildo equivalent. But it's not everything. "How we talk and behave in bed, how we touch, these are all important parts of what makes for good sex," Morgentaler says. "The hands and the mouth and the lips are all part of that. The penis is just one part of the repertoire."

Bigger is not always better, and that goes for anal, too. Research in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that 72 percent of women and 15 percent of men feel pain during anal sex. In another study, 76 percent of bottoms reported pain during anal, and for 23 percent of those guys, it was worse than mild.

Not to mention more than a third of women need clitoral stimulation, not penetration, to reach orgasm. For years, Jase used large strap-ons, penis extenders, and sex toys of all kinds before he figured out that his wife needed clitoral stimulation to reach her oh-my-god moments. Now he helps her plateau using the basics: his mouth and, sometimes, a vibrator.

Jase has four decades of life in the books, and for almost half of that he's been married—that's a lot of time to figure out what is and isn't important in your relationships and sex life. Younger guys might need to live a little more before they figure that out. "Every time I hear stories about guys my age hooking up and having one-night stands and even being in relationships, it gets to me because I know I can't ever do any of those [things] because of my size," Andy says.

The peno-centric approach can keep you from engaging with others in all sorts of ways, whether fully clothed or bare-ass naked. Morgentaler recently saw a patient who was worried that he wasn't "developed" down there—despite his junk being "completely normal," Morgentaler says—and because of that, he was still a virgin.

Jase doesn't get regular checkups anymore, because at his last visit the doctor sent in a young woman to check him for a hernia. "I really thought that I was going to die of embarrassment right in the doctor's office," he says. And David doesn't like swimming or going to the beach because he feels exposed. "I can say with all my heart, I'd be way more happy and have a better life if I had a normal penis," he says.

It might seem like a huge deal when it comes to first-time hookups or one-night stands, but in the longer term, your penis does not take top priority. Most aspects of a relationship have nothing to do with what's in your pants—compatibility, mutual respect, and sense of humor, to name a few. Good sex is also high up there in importance, but using your penis is just one way to satisfy your partner, and it's naive to prioritize size over everything else.

"I would emphasize that this problem often goes away when a guy ends up in a stable relationship, because the couple figures out what they do that works, and penis size is usually not an impediment," Morgentaler says. "The quality of the man is not dependent on the size of his penis."

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A toad-like creature with gnarled arms like tree trunks clutches a massive pestle and a spindly broom in dark brown claws. Protruding from the top of a wooden mortar, the old crone squats, her thin lips as downcast as her dark eyes. Wild strings of mangy hair fly out behind her. Around her, toadstools rise up, red and plump in contrast to her jerky-dry skin. The forward tilt of her unorthodox vehicle and her hurried expression indicate she's in pursuit; in this specific image, she's in pursuit of a woman named Vasilisa the Beautiful.

According to folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural crone who lives deep in the Russian forest, in a house perched on chicken feet and surrounded by pine trees and glowing skulls. Tales of her exploits vary, but typically she either aids young visitors who stumble upon her hut in their journeys, or she cuts things short by attempting to eat them. Across folklore and within single tales, Baba Yaga shifts between a maternal helper and a cannibalistic villain. She's well-known as a frightening witch, but Baba Yaga is also an ancient and complex manifestation of origin myths and shifting cultural anxieties.

In the tale of Vasilisa the Beautiful, arguably the most famous story in which Baba Yaga appears, Baba Yaga takes on several, seemingly conflicting roles. Beautiful Vasilisa lives with her wicked stepmother and two homely stepsisters, who all conspire to have her killed. After several unsuccessful attempts, they finally send Vasilisa directly to Baba Yaga's hut, knowing that the crone eats humans "as one eats chickens." But instead of devouring the girl, Baba Yaga forces her to do a series of seemingly impossible menial tasks, such as separating grains of rice from wheat kernels before dawn. When Vasilisa succeeds at this, she's granted one of the skull lanterns that rings Baba's house; upon returning home, the lantern immediately engulfs her horrible family in flames, freeing her from their tyranny. Eventually, beautiful Vasilisa ends up marrying the Tsar.

Here, Baba acts as trickster, villain, and savior, ultimately helping Vasilisa to rid her of her stepfamily, albeit through shockingly violent and roundabout means. Unlike the traditional godmother figure, Baba is outside the bounds of morality, and her aid often comes in menacing forms.

Baba's ambiguousness, according to the folklorist Joanna Hubbs, is directly connected to her femininity, and her feminity to the natural world. As Andreas Johns, the author of a number of seminial books about the crone, including Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folklore, writes, "Hubbs…discusses Baba Yaga as an aspect of a great mother goddess, whose dual nature as genetrix and cannibal witch reflects a 'fundamental paradox of nature.'" In some ways, she's an "earth mother" figure; in others, she's closely associted with death.

Baba Yaga on chasing Vasilisa. Photo via Wikipedia Commons

The tale of Prince Danila-Govorila encapsulates this duality well. In this one, a princess named Katerina befriends Baba's daughter, whom she finds in Baba's hut after fleeing incestuous advances by her brother. The two eventually escape the evil crone, who repeatedly tries to slam Katerina in her scorching oven. As Katerina and her new companion flee, they toss behind them a comb, a brush, and a hand towel in an attempt to slow Baba down. The comb transforms into a mountain range, the brush into a dense forest, and the towel into a vast lake.

This "chase scene," as Sergey Levchin calls it in his introduction to Russian Folktales from the Collection of A. Afanasyev, is a motif that recurs in tales about Baba. It's one that the renowned and controversial folklorist Vladimir Propp saw, according to Levchin, as an "echo of the ancient myth of the giver of fire (a proto-Prometheus), whose flight from the abode of the gods"—or from her chicken-footed hut, in this case—"becomes the act of creation of our own world—raising up mountains and forests, laying down rivers and seas." By attempting to devour her human prey, Baba Yaga engenders the creation of a new world for them.

In the myriad folkloric representations of her, Baba Yaga's generally unsettling physical attributes remain constant—she's usually said to have a long nose and iron teeth, and she's constantly flying about in her mortar and pestle—yet different contexts exacerbate or highlight certain qualities and phenomena associated with her. In some accounts, she is a manifestation of winter or storms; in others, she's a goddess akin to Persephone.

According to Johns, Baba's complexities and contradictions make her unique among folk figures. "Most folktale characters in European traditions... behave in a predictably unambigious way in relation to the hero or the heroine: They either help or hinder," he writes. "Two very important tale roles are those of the villain, who harms or seeks to harm the protagonist, and the donor, who is helpful and gives the hero or heroine a magic agent." Baba Yaga, confoundingly, takes on both roles—sometimes within the same story.

The inconsistencies in Baba Yaga's story are so striking because she exists within a genre that typically fights against paradoxes in its form and content. It's rare to see such a mercurial character—one that does not easily lend herself to easy moral lessons—in any folkloric tradition.

"That image of an old woman living in the woods, doing whatever she wants all day long, continues to be my dream for myself."

As Levchin acknowledges, Baba Yaga generates more questions than answers. "Why does she want to shove her guest into a blazing stove? Is she a demon of the underworld, tasked with roasting the souls of sinners? [Or] are we hearing a distant echo of a more ancient motif of initiation by fire?"

As mythological characters go, Baba Yaga is relatively obscure outside of Russia, but she tends to attract ardent admiration from those who discover her. In recent years, she has accrued a devoted following among witches and mortals alike: Writing for Patheos, someone known as the Starlight Witch recalled dreaming about the elusive Slavic crone throughout her childhood and coming to think of her as a mother figure; on the Facebook group Wiccan Unite, there are several threads devoted to her power and enduring legacy; in Netflix's The OA, she appears to the main character in visions. Baba's iconic broom, which she uses to dust away the tracks of her flying mortar, was recently invoked in a Vogue article, and beginning in 2013, the feminist website The Hairpin ran an entire advice column (which later became a book) from Baba's perspective, aptly titled "Ask Baba Yaga." Even more recently, she was voted Jezebel's Next Top Beauty Creature.

Many of Baba Yaga's fans playfully call her a feminist icon. Taisia Kitaiskaia, the mind behind Ask Baba Yaga, tells Broadly that she sees Baba Yaga as an aspirational figure. "That image of an old woman living in the woods, doing whatever she wants all day long, continues to be my dream for myself," she says.

From ancient Russia to her online fans today, it's Baba Yaga's ability to live physically and morally outside of the bounds of society, and within the bounds of paradox, that makes her such a compelling and powerful figure. According to Johns, feminist analysis of folklore often positions these tales as products of a patriarchal society, reflections of the male point of view. In some ways, Baba's paradoxical nature both refutes and confirms this reading. She's mercurial and dangerous, which could be seen as a a reflection of men's fear of the sexual power of women. But she's also a reflection of the awe-inspiring power of Mother Nature, a complicated figure who's celebrated for her refusal to be tamed.

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Like other witches, deistic Baba is agent of transformation, who, according to Kitaiskaia, exists "kind of outside of the things which constrain human society, like time and morality." She may well be so compelling for women today because of her rejection of social standards, and the power that comes from that. She's an outlier with power that isn't derived from her beauty, or her relationships with others. Instead, it comes from within her—earth, hut, and firey stove.

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"Hay quien puede relacionar su música con una ideología de extrema derecha, pero nada más lejos de la realidad". Conversamos con Vanessa García Marx sobre su progenitor y la canción que estas semanas protagoniza las marchas constitucionalistas.

Hay prisa. En el quingentésimo aniversario de esa catástrofe que fue para la fe cristiana la mal llamada ‘Reforma’ luterana, hemos visto, toca dar la vuelta a todo lo que la Iglesia ha dicho de este drama y de su archiherético responsable y ‘celebrar’ la fecha en modo ‘cumpleaños feliz’.

Pero la cosa no iba a quedar en buenas palabras o en un acercamiento ‘diplomático’. En el último comunicado conjunto del Vaticano y la Federación de Iglesias Luteranas ya pudimos ver que el objetivo era la misa, hacer del Sacrificio del Altar una ceremonia común para unos y otros.

Y, como decimos, hay prisa: la sugerencia la ha recogido esa organización siempre lista para todo tipo de innovaciones litúrgicas y doctrinales, a condición de que no recuerden para nada a lo que ha sido hasta ahora, las llamadas Comunidades de Base.

Parece ser que, de forma no oficial, se ha pedido desde las altas instancias a estas comunidades y a la organización gemela Somos Iglesia que empiecen a organizar los primeros ‘experimentos’ de celebración eucarística compartida con los luteranos

No hay que decir que a las Comunidades de Base les ha faltado tiempo para aceptar la invitación ‘oficiosa’, publicando una nota sobre la necesidad de diseñar y ofrecer ya “misas ecuménicas” a las que se invite a nuestros hermanos separados.

Y del dicho, al hecho, porque desde este 5 de noviembre, las Comunidades Católicas participarán ya en la “celebración de la cena” del templo luterano de Vía Sicilia en Roma, la diócesis misma de Francisco.

“Por tanto nosotros (Comunidades de Base) […] vendremos aquí, a vuestra iglesia, agradecidos a vuestra hospitalidad, para participar plenamente en vuestra celebración, tomando con vosotros el pan y bebiendo el vino preparados en la mesa del Señor”, señalan en la nota hecha pública. “Asumimos con serenidad esta decisión responsable, convencidos de que forma parte de un camino irreversible que llevará a nuestras Iglesias a unirse en plena pacificación teológica y a trabajar juntas y unidas”.

A las “innovaciones” litúrgicas estamos ya bastante hechos los católicos desde hace muchas décadas, con lo que no queda para asustarse sino esa palabra, “irreversible”, y el hecho, inaudito hasta la fecha, de que esta vez responda a una invitación llegada de Santa Marta, por muy no oficial que sea, y que vaya a llevarse a cabo a un tiro de piedra de San Pedro.

‘Motus in fine velocior’: los procesos se aceleran a medida que llegan a su conclusión, y este súbito acercamiento a las confesiones protestantes está sucendiendo más deprisa, me temo, de lo que los católicos corrientes pueden digerir, tras tantos siglos de considerar a Lutero uno de los peores heresiarcas de la historia

La entrada Las Comunidades de Base preparan las primeras ‘misas ecuménicas’ con luteranos en Roma aparece primero en InfoVaticana.

Las Naciones Unidas llevan desde su origen siendo, a través de sus distintas organizaciones filiales, un poderoso patronizador del aborto en todo el mundo, financiando grupos como Planned Parenthood o abogando por campañas malthusianas radicales, muy próximas a veces a la coacción, en continentes enteros como África.

Pero, por otra parte, uno de los hitos de la ONU es la Carta Universal de los Derechos Humanos, el primero de los cuales es, naturalmente, la vida. Y hasta ahora, pese a todo su entusiasmo abortista, la posición oficial del concebido no nacido se beneficiaba indirectamente del silencio en cuanto a su inclusión -por lo demás, evidente- en este derecho universal.

Pero ahora, y a pesar de la oposición explícita de un centenar de gobiernos -como los de Polonia y Estados Unidos- y asociaciones provida, el Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas ha excluido explícitamente a los no nacidos del derecho a la vida en la legislación internacional esta semana en Ginebra.

Estados Unidos, que había basado su independencia en “el derecho a la vida, a la libertad y a la búsqueda de la felicidad” de los que todos los hombres han sido dotados por su Creador, se vieron en su día ante una contradicción similar con la esclavitud, lo que obligó a la llamada Cláusula de los Tres Quintos, que en la práctica suponía negar a los negros una plena humanidad para no tener que reconocer su inalienable derecho a la libertad.

El borrador de la disposición ha estado a cargo del profesor de Derecho israelí Yuval Shany, que ha trabajado en la misma durante dos años, y que admite haber sabido que no encontraría obstáculos. Los 18 miembros del comité aprobaron el texto, que en algunos aspectos es aún más radical que el previsto previamente.

Así, en el texto queda claro no solo que el ser humano concebido y aún en el seno de su madre no tiene derecho a la vida, sino que el acceso al aborto se convierte en derecho, y ha de ser “efectivo” y al alcance de cualquier economía, exactamente lo que había recomendado el lobby abortista.

Ni una sola voz, ni un solo ‘experto’, mencionó en las deliberaciones preocupación alguna por el hecho de que el niño en el vientre materno siente dolor, según numerosas pruebas, ni se mencionaron los códigos de todo el mundo que prevén una protección especial para el nasciturus.

Para mayor sarcasmo, las discusiones estuvieron dominadas por un tono de moralina. “Soy muy sensible a mi consciencia”, llegó a decir el profesor italiano Mauro Politi, aunque lo que conmovía su conciencia no era la muerte del concebido mediante métodos brutales sino la idea de que alguna mujer pudiera verse privada del derecho de acabar con la vida de su hijo no nacido

La entrada Ya es oficial: la ONU excluye al no nacido del Derecho a la Vida aparece primero en InfoVaticana.

Francesc Pardo, obispo de Gerona, pide una oración “por las personas que por sus convicciones se ven alejadas de su hogar”, en una referencia, queremos creer, a tantos catalanes que han tenido que abandonar su tierra por el totalitarismo nacionalista.

Han tenido que pasar 40 años, pero nunca es demasiado tarde si la dicha es buena. Según entendemos de su última nota el Obispo de Girona, Francesc Pardo, ha querido por fin solidarizarse con las miles de familias que han tenido que abandonar Cataluña durante las últimas décadas por no comulgar con las ideas nacionalistas, por no poder educar a sus hijos en libertad y, en fin, por no querer vivir en una tierra en la que unos pocos imponen sus leyes lingüísticas totalitarias a los demás.

En una nota publicada el pasado viernes, coincidiendo con la entrada en prisión del cesado gobierno independentista, el obispado de Girona hacía las siguientes declaraciones:

En este momento crítico que está viviendo nuestro país llamamos a que se respeten los derechos fundamentales de las personas y de las instituciones. También pedimos a todos los miembros de las comunidades parroquiales y religiosas de nuestra diócesis que recen para pedir, una y otra vez, que la paz reine en todos los rincones de nuestra casa y por las personas que por sus convicciones se ven alejadas de sus hogares.

Actualización: Un lector asegura que el obispo de Girona se refiere, con la expresión “por las personas que por sus convicciones se ven alejadas de sus hogares” a los miembros del gobierno golpista que ingresaron en prisión el pasado jueves acusados de varios delitos (sedición, rebelión, malversación de caudales públicos, prevaricación…)

La entrada ¿A quién se refiere el obispo de Gerona? aparece primero en InfoVaticana.

Los agentes intervinieron 180.000 euros en metálico al comisario jubilado. Su compañero Salamanca y su socio Redondo, también a prisión.

A CIG di que o conseguido "supera as pretensións marcadas inicialmente polo persoal" e atribúeo a que o paro foi "un conflito unitario"

With more than a billion followers, the Catholic church is the largest global organisation the world has ever seen, and many of its followers are divorced, or unmarried parents. To carry out its work all over the world, it depends on voluntary labour. If the ordinary worshippers stop believing in what they are doing, the whole thing collapses. Francis knows this. If he cannot reconcile theory and practice, the church might be emptied out everywhere. His opponents also believe the church faces a crisis, but their prescription is the opposite. For them, the gap between theory and practice is exactly what gives the church worth and meaning. If all the church offers people is something they can manage without, Francis's opponents believe, then it will surely collapse.

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Praying is boring and Pope Francis is sparing us some of the Catholic guilt for dozing off while prostrating ourselves before God.

The Pope admitted to occasionally sleeping on the job while he prays.

“When I go to pray, a few times I fall asleep,” he said during an interview for TV2000 published Tuesday. Pope Francis also cited St. Therese’s belief that God appreciates it when people fall asleep while praying.

The Guardian reports His Holiness gets around seven hours of sleep each night, along with a nap after lunch.

Image: Benhur Arcayan

One of the most likable things about Jennifer Lawrence is the utter lack of chill with which she reacts to people she admires: the way she whisper-screamed “Oh my god” when she met Jack Nicholson, or gazed at Anne Hathaway like she was watching an angel.

It’s part of her just-a-regular-cool-girl vibe. Lawrence may be an Oscar-winning actress and America’s sweetheart, but just like us, she fangirls out over her obsessions. And as she’s been saying for years, one of those obsessions is Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Lawrence is not just a casual fan of the reality show, but someone who knows the ins and outs of all the Kardashian clan’s problems, who feels deeply for them. “I was crying about the Kardashians the other night,” she said last May. “They're under a lot of pressure. … Even if it’s elective, it's pressure — and I get that!”

Lawrence says she’s been a fan of the family since their show began, and it’s been public knowledge since at least 2015, when she screamed “I love your show!” across a public hotel lobby at Kim Kardashian. Later that year, Lawrence’s friends got Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner to stop by for a surprise visit on her birthday.

When she was shooting Mother!, Lawrence created a tent filled with pictures of the Kardashians and episodes of their show playing on a loop, and took refuge there after shooting particularly intense scenes. "I've been watching them for 11 years,” she told ET Online, “so I grew up with them, and I know all of them personally."

So when Lawrence had the chance to interview Kim Kardashian West on Thursday night, she did not hold back.

Lawrence was guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live with Kardashian West as her guest, and she got down to business immediately. After announcing that she’s been obsessed with the Kardashians “for over a decade, in a very, very healthy way,” Lawrence barely gave Kardashian West a chance to catch her breath before firing off her first question: “Do you think it’s a coincidence that Reggie Bush’s wife looks just like you? I don’t.” (Reggie Bush is Kardashian’s West ex-boyfriend, and reader: Lawrence is not wrong.)

The question set the tone for the rest of interview: Lawrence, an obsessive fan who studies the details of Kardashian West’s love life and family dynamics, asked the hard-hitting questions that obsessive fans demands to know, with the tenacity of an investigative reporter. She hit on all of the big fan questions: Which of Kardashian West’s exes is the craziest? (Kris Humphries.) What does Kardashian West think about Blac Chyna? (She’s not saying, for the sake of the children.) Watching the clip is like reliving that scene in Bridget Jones’s Diary (book not movie) where Bridget lands an interview with Colin Firth and asks him a lot of nosy questions about the wet shirt scene from Pride and Prejudice.

Kardashian West played along for her part, but she stayed coy whenever Lawrence asked a question she didn’t like.

“So do you and Kanye, like, fart in front of each other?” Lawrence demanded. “Do you talk about farts?”

“What are you talking about?” Kardashian West said at once. “I don’t fart.”

Se le ha detenido junto a Carlos Salamanca, excomisario de Barajas, y su mujer por posible delitos de cohecho, organización criminal y blanqueo de capitales dentro de una operación llevada a cabo por la Unidad de Asuntos Internos de la Policía Nacional.