When a boy showed him his arm cast, the pope made a gesture as if to ask "Do you have a pen?" Three papal aides whipped out theirs.
Outside, Serena Subania, mother of Angelica, sobbed as she pressed her head into the chest of the pope, who held her close and whispered words of comfort.įrancis seemed eager to linger with well-wishers. Still unclear was whether he would attend the late-night, torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at Rome's Colosseum to mark Good Friday.īefore departing Gemelli Polyclinic late Saturday morning, Francis comforted a Rome couple whose 5-year-old daughter died Friday night at the Catholic hospital. A Vatican cardinal will be at the altar to celebrate both Masses, a recent practice due to the pontiff having a troublesome knee issue.īut Francis is scheduled to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass, which this year will be held in a juvenile prison in Rome. Peter's Square and expected to draw tens of thousands of faithful.
It said he would preside at this weekend's Palm Sunday Mass and at Easter Mass on April 9, both held in St. In a sign of his improved health, the Vatican released details of Francis' Holy Week schedule. The pontiff received antibiotics administered intravenously during his stay, the Vatican said. Peter's Square after reportedly experiencing breathing difficulties. To prevent this division, it is necessary to reconcile “the function and the person” when these individuals are still seminarians.A chipper-sounding Pope Francis was discharged Saturday from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away that he's "still alive."įrancis, 86, was hospitalized at Gemelli Polyclinic on Wednesday following his weekly public audience in St. Many, Flesch continues, see their vocation as “compensation for personal deficiencies,” seeing the priesthood as “a safe place that gives protection and security.” The elevation they perceive in the priesthood places them in the “tense and conflicting situation of having to deal with their own deficiencies.” This “split identity,” says the psychiatrist, increases the risk of spiritual abuse.
These priests “climb into the ranks of power in order to escape their own feeling of inadequacy, to mean nothing or be nothing as a ‘normal’ person,” he explains. In an interview with German site, he says he is convinced that there is a “system within the Church that attracts and favors abusers.” He points to the narcissism of some priests as one of the pillars of clericalism and a fundamental element in the propensity to commit spiritual abuse. The German psychiatrist Martin Flesch is the author of an essay on spiritual abuse and has analyzed the mental suffering of priests in the Catholic Church. Reuters, English 2 Priestly narcissism, the root of clericalism However, on the last day of his visit while meeting with clergy, religious and catechists, the Argentine pontiff said that caring for prisoners “is good for everyone, as a human community.” “The way in which these ‘last ones’ are treated is a measure of the dignity and the hope of a society,” he warned. During his trip, the Pope did not directly refer to these condemnations. Several human rights NGOs have recently denounced the sham trials and discrimination against Shiite political and religious prisoners in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is ruled by a Sunni family. A video of the protest was posted online by the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the dissolved political opposition group, al-Wefaq. It is not clear if the Pope saw the signs, the British press agency explained. The Pope was on his way to the Sacred Heart School to meet with the country’s youth. Families of Bahraini death row and life inmates held a small protest along the route of Pope Francis’ motorcade on Saturday to demand the release of political prisoners in the Gulf Arab state, Reuters reported.
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