Ciao Papa (e mamma) – guarda come mi diverto

Amidst the stories of tensions and conflicts, yesterday’s story of the young boy who stole the limelight away from the Pope today when he climbed onto a stage at the Vatican before tinkering with the spear and glove of a Swiss Guard, still makes it the top ‘other’ story.

“The boy clambered onto the platform before running around and grabbing the guard. Vatican gendarmes stood and let the young boy run around as monsignors read out a catechism lesson in various languages. The young boy’s mother ran on stage to retrieve him after he left the audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

Pope Francis told the crowd that the boy was hearing and speech impaired, before adding: “But he knows how to communicate, to express himself.” “And he has something that made me think: He’s free. Undisciplined-ly free, but he’s free.

“It made me think, am I so free before God?”