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‘I could see this amazing transformation in his face’
The Bergoglio I knew
Isabel de Bertodano - 6 April 2013 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/
Isabel de Bertodano is a freelance journalist and a former Home News Editor of The Tablet.
Back in the 1990s, Guillermo Marcó, a priest in the diocese of Buenos Aires, was press officer for Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio. In his eight years at the future Pope’s side, the spokesman gained unique insights into the man he calls his friend, and whom he saw again briefly after his election
When Guillermo Marcó visited Pope Francis last month at the Vatican, he noticed a remarkable change in his old friend.
“In Buenos Aires, when I saw him before the conclave, he looked really tired. He was anticipating his retirement, preparing himself for that, not for taking on a new job,” said Fr Marcó. “Of course, we know that the Holy Spirit works through the conclave, but really I’ve now seen the effects of that because I know him so well,” said the Pope’s former press officer, who had five minutes with his old boss at the Vatican last month.
“I could see this amazing transformation in his face; he was glowing and happy and his eyes had this special light in them. He seemed to have an extra strength and without any doubt this is a change brought about by the force of God.”
...The new pope is accustomed to an austere lifestyle and although he has good friends he does not socialise. “He avoids going to eat dinner with people at their home. He’s always been a person whom I’d describe as monkish in his lifestyle. He’s always been quite a solitary person. He looks after his interior life; he gets up at about 5 a.m. to pray. So, at night, he eats an apple, drinks a cup of tea and goes to bed early.” He preferred to visit the poor of the city, something that became a feature of his tenure as archbishop – he is credited with doubling the number of priests visiting the poor barrios of the city.
...“He says you must go out to the fringes of life and see what is going on. You should not wait for the world to come to you,” said Fr Marcó. “He doesn’t see the poor as people he can help but rather as people from whom he can learn. He believes the poor are closer to God than the rest of us; they have a very personal experience of him.”
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