Minnesota priest gets Pope Francis to autograph a baseball

A priest from Duluth, Minn. had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis on a recent trip to Rome and returned home with a rare piece of memorabilia. 

Rev. Richard Kunst had a brief conversation with the head of the Catholic Church that ended with Pope Francis autographing a baseball for him. 

"The rarity and uncommon nature of it," Kunst told WDIO of why he chose to get a baseball signed. "You can bring something like this out to people not interested in the faith and a signed baseball would still maybe speak to them a bit."

(Courtesy: WDIO)

While it's possible Kunst traveled with the original intentions of getting the baseball signed, it's not out of the realm of possibility that a baseball was all he had on him at the time. And you're not going to not get the Pope's autograph - just like you're not going to not get Randy Jackson's autograph.