Why, you might ask, does Pope Francis live in the Santa Marta (Vatican) hotel, instead of in the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace?
It wasn’t so much a question of luxury as personality, he said. “I need to live among people,” he said. “If I was living alone, isolated, it wouldn’t be good for me. A professor asked me the same question, ‘why don’t you go and live there (in the Papal apartments)’? And I replied: ‘Listen to me professor, it is for psychiatric reasons,'” he said chuckling.
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Rossa,
I really like this pope. He seems to have a special place in his heart for the poor, disabled and children. And I’m really hopeful he makes a statement for non-drug methods for “mental illness” – on behalf of children, especially.
I enjoyed the article you lined, especially the last line:
“Don’t let anyone rob you of hope.”
Amen,
Duane