# I Can't Find Pope's Email. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205 "2013-12-26T13:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/1 "2013-12-26T13:42:48Z")
Far be it from me to bother you people with trivial problems. But upon perusing the Pope’s [website](http://www.vatican.va/), I just can’t seem to find his email address. There are a lot of Latin links. But no email address, I can seem to find. I want to ask him what his views are regarding laws that protect gays against discrimination in the work place. I asked Pope Benedict the same question. But he never replied. Please help me find his email address. I really want to ask him this question. Thank you all in advance:) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/2 "2013-12-26T13:48:38Z")
The previous one’s was benedictxvi@vatican.va , so you might want to try francis@vatican.va ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/3 "2013-12-26T13:54:35Z")
[Information on how to contact the Pope.](http://www.askacatholic.com/_TheChurch/vatican_mailingaddress.cfm) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/4 "2013-12-26T16:35:48Z")
Don’t know the Pope’s position, but 20 years ago when the Saskatchewan government enacted that kind of legal protection, the Roman Catholic bishops supported it. They stated that one’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be a factor in employment and housing. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/5 "2013-12-26T16:50:13Z")
Gosh, I don’t see President Obama’s personal email on the White House website either… You’d think the head of a multiple hundred million person organization would want everyone to be able to email him directly! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/6 "2013-12-26T16:57:57Z")
[president@whitehouse.gov](mailto:president@whitehouse.gov) (not joking.) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/7 "2013-12-26T17:11:52Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [president@whitehouse.gov](mailto:president@whitehouse.gov) (not joking.) Something tells me the secret service gets copied on every email going to this address. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/8 "2013-12-26T17:13:06Z")
Pretty sure neither the pope nor the president see many (if any at all) of the emails to those addresses. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/9 "2013-12-26T17:18:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Pretty sure neither the pope nor the president see many (if any at all) of the emails to those addresses. Given Pope Frank’s general style, I imagine he reads at least a few, though there simply aren’t hours enough in the day for him to read them ALL. I’d rate the chances of getting a personal reply from Francis as vastly higher than with the previous Pope, yet still vanishingly slim. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/10 "2013-12-26T20:11:54Z")
Meh, just hit him up on Twitter. [@pontifex](https://twitter.com/Pontifex). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/11 "2013-12-26T21:31:52Z")
This reminds me–back when I was in NYC, I recall reading in an article that Bloomberg’s personal number was listed in the phone book, and calling it would, in fact, occasionally result in him picking up the phone. I’d like to get my hands on the Vatican City Yellow Pages and look for an entry under “Francis, P.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/12 "2013-12-27T13:19:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The previous one’s was benedictxvi@vatican.va , so you might want to try francis@vatican.va FWIW, I just tried francis@vatican.va, and it was returned to me. So we know it’s not that. I wonder if it is francisi@vatican.va. In any event, I won’t try that one, for now at least. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-find-popes-email/677205/13 "2013-12-27T13:45:47Z")
Looks like he doesn’t have an email address: > **[Papal fans will have to stick with snail mail](https://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/papal-fans-will-have-to-stick-with-snail-mail/)** > > VATICAN CITY — When Pope Benedict XVI was elected pope in 2005, the Vatican quickly (just 16 hours after his election) set up six different email addresses by language for well-wishers to sen…