{"id":44340,"date":"2022-01-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/01\/14\/pope-francis-writes-to-the-journalist-who-recorded-him-leaving-a-record-store\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:30:00","slug":"pope-francis-writes-to-the-journalist-who-recorded-him-leaving-a-record-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/01\/14\/pope-francis-writes-to-the-journalist-who-recorded-him-leaving-a-record-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis writes to the journalist who recorded him leaving a record store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis' surprise visit to a record store went viral, and even reached the Vatican's paper, \u201cL'Osservatore Romano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That's why the journalist who caught the Pope on camera wrote to him explaining what happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAVIER MART\u00cdNEZ-BROCAL<br \/>\n<\/strong>Director, Rome Reports<br \/>\n<em>'I'm sorry that the Pope, who loves freedom, has to stay in his residence, because every move he makes is caught on camera. I wrote to him to apologize and to say that, on the other hand, a story like this, which can make people smile, is important in a time when we only hear about tragedies'.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The surprise was that Pope Francis responded with this letter.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope says it was bad luck that, \u201cafter taking all the precautions, a journalist was right there waiting for someone at a taxi stand.\u201d He continues: \u201cWe must not lose our sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope also writes that what he misses most is walking freely around the city, as he did in Buenos Aires, walking from one parish to another.<\/p>\n<p>With a note of humor, the Pope writes, \u201cThank you for fulfilling your vocation, even if it means giving the Pope a hard time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAVIER MART\u00cdNEZ-BROCAL<br \/>\n<\/strong>Director, Rome Reports<br \/>\n<em>'I think the Pope recognizes the importance of a journalist's job, even if it's sometimes uncomfortable for him or causes him problems. But he is grateful for this service of honestly recounting events as they happen'.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In any case, the Pope's letter doesn't clarify one of the big mysteries of this story, which is the title of the CD he was given at the record store.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2022. \u201cThank you for fulfilling your vocation as, even if it means giving the Pope a hard time,\u201d writes the Pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GWoN_zLNQHI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcartapapaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcartapapaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}