IT was a day to remember meeting Pope Francis in the Vatican audience hall last Thursday 18 March. He is a Pope like no other in his simplicity of life and would be more comfortable sitting on a bus in Buenos Aries or Rome hum-bly going to visit his parishioners than receiving pompous political delegations.

He is well known for his simple two roomed apartment in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the more lavish papal apartments. He is just an ordinary pastor and want to remain as such. But he feels penned in he says. A few weeks ago a news story described how he just went out of the Vatican with a few security men and went to an eyeglass shop, stayed an hour and insisted on paying for them himself.

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