Pope Francis on the Youth Days in Portugal: “The Pope goes. Either Francisco or João XXIV”
Exclusive interview with Pope Francis as World Youth Days, which will take place 2 in advance in Lisbon in August 023. The full interview was transferred this Monday night on CNN Portugal
Francis guarantees that the Pope will visit Portugal next year. It just doesn’t guarantee it’s him. Rumors have increased in recent months and the words said in the exclusive interview with TVI/CNN Portugal may not help them to calm down. “I think to go. Oh daddy go. Either Francisco goes or John XXIV goes, but the Pope goes.”
Amid laughter, the interviewer, Maria João Avillez, insisted that the Portuguese hope that Pope Francis will be present at the World Youth Days. “Whatever God wants”, he replied, at a time when some church members have already detected signs or clues of a possible resignation, such as the recent mass in the city of L’Aquila (started by Pope Celestine V, the first Pope to resign , and we also celebrate the XVI before the resignation) or Ben to be held from the consistory to appoint 2 cardinals and meetings that follow.
Prior to this, Pope Francis has already started this interview in thought, when the interview was granted at the beginning of the conversation in July, the Pope already thought, did not know and not to be seriously ill. But already after his visit to Canada, and visibly tired from the trip, he confessed to journalists that the door was “open”.
Asked about these days will be “a moment of reconciliation”, at a time of “difficulties” for the church in Portugal – in reference to the cases of sexual abuse that reached the Independent Commission created by the time the news that Cardinal Patriarch Manuel Clemente did not communicate a complaint to the authorities – Pope Francis said that “distance is what accentuates the difficulties”.
“When distances are shortened, when people get closer, there is dialogue, there are discussions, perhaps, but it doesn’t matter. There is dialogue and there we can build reconciliation,” he said.
A year before Youth Day, the Pope gave high praise to young people, given “their progressive culture and language”.
The full interview with Pope Francis is transferred this Monday night on CNN Portugal.