{"id":58536,"date":"2017-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/05\/18\/one-by-one-pope-hugs-over-100-patients-suffering-from-rare-disease-huntington-s-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:00:00","slug":"one-by-one-pope-hugs-over-100-patients-suffering-from-rare-disease-huntington-s-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/05\/18\/one-by-one-pope-hugs-over-100-patients-suffering-from-rare-disease-huntington-s-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"One by one, pope hugs over 100 patients suffering from rare disease: Huntington's Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>Pope Francis literally embraced all of these sick people who filled the Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>They have <span style='font-weight: bold;'>Huntington's Syndrome, a degenerative disease <\/span>that usually begins to show its symptoms between 30 and 50 years of age.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>Those <span style='font-weight: bold;'>who suffer from it are often marginalized, or even abandoned<\/span> by their relatives who are unable to take care of them. <span style='font-weight: bold;'>Pope Francis greeted both the sick and their relatives<\/span>, who sacrifice 24 hours a day to care of them.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>Some asked him to bless photos of other loved ones, while others tearfully embraced him, unleashing the applause of the people.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>There were selfies, blessings, and greetings of all kinds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>This was the message that Pope Francis gave. <span style='font-weight: bold;'>Sweetness, closeness; more than words, but gestures.<\/span> He encouraged the sick and their families not to be discouraged, and and to never become overcome by loneliness and suffering.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>POPE FRANCIS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'Fragility is not an ill. May none of you ever feel you are alone; may none of you feel you are a burden; do not to give in to the temptation of the sense of shame or guilt.\u00e2?\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>He also called for<span style='font-weight: bold;'> more research in order to find solutions<\/span> to diseases like this, and <span style='font-weight: bold;'>criticized the destruction of human embryos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>POPE FRANCIS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'We know that no ends, even noble in themselves, such as a predicted utility for science, for other human beings or for society, can justify the destruction of human embryos.\u00e2?\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>At the moment, <span style='font-weight: bold;'>7,000 rare diseases have been discovered, which affects 7% of the world's population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>JRB\/JC<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>CTV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>- F<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>-BN<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Up:JC<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, 2017. ;\"Fragility is not an ill. 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