On the occasion of his ten-year pontificate, Pope Bergoglio tells his story in an unprecedented way, entrusting his words, a further sign of the passing of time, to a podcast published on the Vaticannews.it website.
"Time is pressing... He's in a hurry. And when you want to grasp today, it is already yesterday. Living like this is new. These ten years have been like this: a tension, living in tension".
A story of himself, in nine minutes, with an open heart, that of Pope Francis, recorded in an afternoon, as told by VaticanNews, from Santa Marta.
The most beautiful moment, in the ten years of his pontificate, was "the meeting in the square with the elderly. The old are wisdom and help me a lot. I'm old too, aren't I? But the old are like the good wine that has that seasoned history. The language with the old to me renews, they make me younger I do not know why. They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful moments".
The worst moment, the synthesis of every negative moment: war. Bergoglio did not expect to be the Pope of the Third World War: "I did not think, I saw that there was world war but behind the wars there is the arms industry, this is diabolical".
This is why he asks for Peace as a gift: "It pains me to see the dead, boys - both Russians and Ukrainians, I don't care - who do not return. It's tough."
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Three words come to me: brotherhood, crying, smile - he continued - Human brotherhood, we are all brothers, recompose brotherhood and learn not to be afraid to cry and smile. When a person knows how to cry and knows how to smile, he is a person who has his feet on the earth and his gaze on the horizon of the future. A person who forgot to cry something already doesn't work and if you forgot your smile, even worse."