“That’s why one day I said to him: ‘Do you know that they say that this is how you are destroying the papacy?’ And he answered me: ‘But my vocation is that of a priest and as a priest I have to be among the people, of course I cannot be on a pedestal.’ And this is a great lesson that he gives to everyone: you can be great by being small,” he tells ACI Prensa.
Marchese assures that the book shows “nuances of his life that were not known, glimpses of his life before becoming Pope, such as the moment of the end of the Second World War; the arrival to the moon, the discussions at home about Hitler, so many new stories about the years of the dictatorship and so many new details about the ‘dark’ years of his stay in Córdoba ‘in exile’.”
Finally, he emphasizes that the Holy Father also addresses current issues such as his health, or the possibility of resigning from the pontificate. According to Marchese, “he tells important things, such as that he does not plan to reform the conclave with voting rights for laymen and nuns and that those that are circulating are all fantasies.”
It should be noted that the work has gone on sale in Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and the rest of Latin America.