Today a child with a disability has become the protagonist of the general audience held by Pope Francis, by separating from his mother, taking the stage and asking at all costs for the pontiff’s skullcap.
At the beginning of the hearing, the child only went up to the platform where the pope gives his catechesis On Wednesdays and after exchanging a few words with the pontiff, he also sat for a moment in the chair reserved for the regent of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, Leonardo Sapienza.
But the child’s intention, as he indicated on several occasions, was get the white skullcap of the pontiff. He finally managed to get one as a gift and returned satisfied with his mother, who was among the several thousand faithful present in the Paul VI classroom.
Pope Francis, who always patiently smiled at the little boy, affirmed before beginning his catechesis that “this child had the freedom to approach and move as if he were at home” and thanked him “for this lesson” because “children do not have an automatic translator from heart to life, the children continue “and also asked” that the Lord help him in his limitation and in his growth “.
It is not the first time that a child has taken center stage in an audience of this type. At other times, other children wandered freely on the dais near the Pope and even sat in his chair.
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