2024-03-16 16:20:28
Pope Francis rules out a possible resignation, which he describes as a “distant hypothesis” that would only occur due to “a serious physical impediment,” although he says that when he was hospitalized some in the Vatican were “more interested in politics, in campaigning for elections.” , almost thinking of a new conclave”.
“It is true that the Vatican is the last absolute monarchy in Europe, and that courtly reasoning and maneuvers often occur here, but these patterns must be definitively abandoned,” he points out in “Life. My story through History,” the autobiography which will be published next week, but which will be announced this Thursday by the “Corriere della sera”.
The Italian newspaper publishes excerpts from the book written by the 88-year-old pope with the Vatican and his personal friend Fabio Marchese, in which he reviews his life, from his childhood to the present, and comments on great historical moments, from the nuclear bombings. in Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the military coup in Argentina until the pandemic.
“I believe that the Petrine ministry is ad vitam and, therefore, I do not see conditions for a resignation. Things would change if a serious physical impediment occurred, and in that case I already signed the letter with the resignation that is deposited at the beginning of the pontificate in the Secretariat of State. If this happened, I would not call myself Pope Emeritus, but simply Bishop Emeritus of Rome, and I would move to Santa Maria Maggiore to become a confessor once more,” he says.
“But this is a distant hypothesis, because I really don’t have such serious reasons to think regarding a resignation. Someone, over the years, has perhaps hoped that sooner or later, perhaps following a hospitalization, I would make an announcement of this type, but there is no such risk: thank the Lord, I am in good health,” he adds.
Regarding the attacks he has received, he says that he was hurt by the fact that he was “destroying the papacy”: In the 2013 conclave “there was a great desire to change things, to abandon certain attitudes that unfortunately still struggle to disappear today. There are always who try to stop the reforms, who would like to remain immobile in the time of the pope-king,” he says.
Francisco talks regarding his grandparents and that Piedmontese, a northern Italian dialect, was his “first mother tongue”, regarding how his family escaped from a shipwreck in which 300 migrants died at the beginning of the 20th century, or regarding Italian films and songs. who have always accompanied him.
He also gives his opinion on topics such as abortion, surrogacy or the reception of homosexuals in the Church, while referring to his relationship with his predecessor, Benedict XVI and talking regarding Diego Maradona, Leo Messi and his passion for football.
But of the military coup in Argentina, when he hid three seminarians, who helped him “to welcome other young people at risk like them, at least twenty in two years” and of his role in the release of two Jesuits expelled by the company and kidnapped by the regime.
“It was a generational genocide,” says the pope, who adds: “The accusations once morest me have continued until recently. It was the revenge of some who knew how much I opposed those atrocities.”
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