Author: NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 11/03/2025 | 05:15:48
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Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. The 88-year-old pope is responding to the sometimes morbid interest in the health of popes over centuries. Pope Francis is making his own the somewhat-mixed legacy of St. John Paul II. Francis, who at the time was the archbishop of Buenos Aires, referred to the saying again in 2018 in a speech to priests. The Argentine journalist and physician, Dr. Nelson Castro, revealed in his book “The Health of Popes” that Francis had reached out to him within a few months of his 2013 election. Francis said he saw a psychiatrist weekly during six months of Argentina’s military dictatorship. Francis had sought out help to manage his anxiety when he was trying to hide people from the military and ferry them out of Argentina. He said the therapy also helped him maintain a sense of equilibrium in making decisions of all kinds. As early as 2014 Francis was already assuming his papacy would be short-lived and that his own death was not far off.
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