On the 23rd, Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, visited the San Jesus Infants’ Hospital in Rome, bringing the Pope’s blessing to sick children, medical staff and staff. The cardinal praised the medical personnel and these workers as collaborators in the cause of the Pope’s charity and contributors to the promotion of peace.
(Vatican News Network) On December 23, Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, visited the sick children, medical staff and workers of the Hospital of the Holy Infants in Rome, and brought them the blessing of Pope Francis. During the three-hour interview, he faced the pain of countless sick children, the grief and doubts of their parents: does it all make sense? To this, the cardinal replied: We cannot understand why innocent people suffer, we cannot find any reason to justify this situation. However, this is not an accident and should have meaning… We know that there is something greater above us.
Cardinal Parolin visited the sick children accompanied by the director of the hospital, Enoc, and other leaders. He stopped at the bedside of Sophia, who was born with a rare neurological disease, touched the child’s shoulder, placed the Pope’s Christmas icon on her pillow, and encouraged the child’s mother to pray and trust in God.
The sick child opposite Sophia was called Jasmine, the daughter of an immigrant, and she was diagnosed with the disease three days after she was born, and received a liver transplant when she was just over a year old. Although she still has difficulty speaking after treatment, she still attends kindergarten. A week ago, she got sick again and went back to the hospital, and until now, she has many tubes in her body.
Dariana’s condition is distressing. Before she was 5 years old, she developed Pearson syndrome, a degenerative disease, and had to be fed through a tube. Her mother brought her from Venezuela to Rome for medical treatment.
To the doctors, nurses and all the staff who look after and care for these little patients, the cardinal said they should do their best to get the patients better, but more importantly, they need to take care of them and be with them. The cardinal appreciated and thanked them for their work, and called them colleagues in the work of the Pope’s Charity, emphasizing that what they did was a step towards world peace, especially in the current situation of wars and conflicts in Ukraine and other parts of the world. • work has contributed to peace.
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