Pope Francis has a great heart for the marginalized and the vulnerable. Hardly a day passes without a new headline about how he has reached out to someone who “the world” looks down on in scorn.
While the media refers to these episodes as “gestures,” those who were the recipients of those “gestures” say that they are more than that: they are the sincere movements of the heart of Pope Francis towards those who are suffering. One man who suffers from body-wide tumors that have left him terribly disfigured said that when the pope embraced him recently, without hesitation, he “felt only love.”
“His hands were so soft. And his smile was so clear and open,” Vinicio Riva said about the pope. “But the thing that struck me most is that there has not been thinking about whether or not to hug me. I'm not contagious, but he did not know. But he just did it: he caressed me all over my face, and as he did I felt only love.”
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