On the 23rd Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, visited the San Jesus Children’s Hospital in Rome, bringing the Pope’s blessing to sick children, medical personnel and staff. The cardinal praised these medical personnel and workers as collaborators in the Pope’s charitable cause and contributor to the promotion of peace.
（Vatican news networkOn 23 December, Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, visited sick children, the medical staff and operators of the Holy Infant Hospital in Rome, and brought them the blessing of Pope Francis. During the three-hour interview, he addressed the pain of countless sick children, their parents’ pain and doubts: 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 no accident and should have some meaning… We know there is something greater upon us.
Cardinal Parolin visited the sick children accompanied by the director of the hospital, Enoc, and other managers. He stopped by the bedside of Sophia, born with a rare neurological disease, touched the child’s shoulder, placed the Pope’s Christmas icon on her pillow and urged the child’s mother to pray and trust in God .
The sick child in front of Sophia was named Jasmine, the daughter of an immigrant, who was diagnosed with the disease just three days after birth and underwent 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, up to now she still has many tubes in her body.
Dariana’s condition is miserable: before the age of 5 she developed Pearson’s syndrome, a degenerative disease, and had to be fed with a tube. She was brought by her mother from Venezuela to Rome for medical treatment.
To the doctors, nurses and all the staff who care and take care of these little patients, the cardinal said that they should do their best to heal the patients, but above all they must take care of them and be with them. The cardinal appreciated and thanked them for their work, and called them collaborators in the Pope’s work of charity, underlining that what they did was a step towards peace in the world, 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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