In the book, Pope Francis offers details of his life, both as a layman and as a religious and, of course, since his election to the pontificate. Thus, he explains that he usually gets up at 4:45 a.m., he finds it calming to listen to Wagner’s music, that when he was young he played soccer as a goalkeeper or that he had a girlfriend before entering the seminary, with whom he went dancing every weekend. .
It also refers to his sins and defects. Being defined as an “example of simplicity” by one of his interlocutors, he responds: “Don’t believe, don’t believe. “Hidden sins are the worst.”
Asked about his defects, he details: “I am like boiling milk. How to say? Impatient… Sometimes I answer too quickly. Sometimes I have come to believe myself superior to others. Sometimes I haven’t had the patience to wait. And they are defects related to self-sufficiency, which is a very bitter and ugly root that I have to constantly monitor.” At another point in the dialogue he acknowledges that it is sometimes difficult for him “not to be resentful.”
Pope Francis also explains that he confesses every 15 days with the Spanish friar Manuel Blanco, of whom he assures: “As a good Franciscan, he has a wide range of abilities.”