Meeting a mother mourning a newborn baby and visiting young women rescued from forced prostitution are moments from the Year of Mercy that remain impressed on Pope Francis’s heart.
The Pope reviewed the Holy Year in a 40-minute interview aired last Sunday on TV2000, a television station owned by the Italian bishops’ conference.
Describing a visit to the neonatal ward of Rome’s San Giovanni Hospital in September, he said: “There was a woman who cried and cried and cried standing by her two infants – tiny, but beautiful.
