“We have to disarm the words, to disarm minds and disassemble the earth. There is a great need for reflection, calm, meaning of complexity,” The 88 -year -old pontiff wrote to the director of one of Italy’s reference newspapers, Il Corriere Della Sera, in a letter dated March 14.
Pope’s letter more than a month of hospitalization
In the letter, Francisco said that diplomacy and international organizations needed “new blood and credibility.” And he said that his own disease had also given clarity about some things, such as seeing the war “even more absurd.” “Human fragility, in effect, has the power to make us clearer about what lasts and what happens, about what makes us live and what it kills”wrote.
Responding to a letter from the newspaper director, Luciano Fontana, Francisco also urged all journalists to feel “the importance of words.” “They are never just words: they are facts that build human environments. “We must disarm the words, to disarm minds and disassemble the earth.”
How Pope’s health continues
Francisco has registered slight improvements in his health and number two of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, dismissed any suggestion that the Pope could renounce.
“Absolutely not”, He said Parolin to journalists on Monday. Parolin has visited Francisco twice during his hospitalization, the most recent on March 2, and said he found Francisco better on that occasion than on his first visit, on February 25.
Now Francisco can spend part of the day without high oxygen flows and use only ordinary supplementary oxygen supplied by a nasal tube, the Holy See press office reported. Doctors are also trying to reduce the time that a non -invasive mechanical ventilation mask uses at night, to force their lungs to work more.
While those are “slight advances”, the Vatican has not yet given a calendar about when it could be discharged. That said, Buckingham Palace announced Monday that King Carlos III planned to meet Francisco on April 8 at the Vatican.
Such state visits are always organized in close collaboration with the Parolin office, which suggests that the Holy See believes that the Pope will be back at home by then, except setbacks.
Meanwhile, the Vatican published some details about Francisco’s first photograph that had been disclosed since his hospitalization. The image, taken on Sunday from behind, showed Francisco sitting in his wheelchair in his private chapel in prayer without any indication of nasal tubes.
The photo, which shows Francisco wearing a purple stole of Lent, followed an audio message that Francisco recorded on March 6 in which he thanked for his prayers, with a soft and laborious voice.
Source: Ambito
