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Calling people on the phone is no big deal for Pope Francis, the Catholic News Service said in a report quoting a Vatican official.
The pope reportedly said the many calls the journalists have brought to light are just the tip of the iceberg.
“Good thing they don’t know about all the ones I have made!” the pope reportedly told Monsignor Dario Vigano, director of the Vatican Television Center.
Vigano said that during a recent meeting with the pope, he asked the pontiff about the media frenzy over reports of papal calls.
The monsignor said the pope looked at him amazed and said, “Tell the journalists that my calls are not news.”
“That’s the way I am; I’ve always done this, even in Buenos Aires,” the pope reportedly told Vigano.
He said the pope explained how any time he got “a card or a letter from a priest having difficulties, from a family or a prisoner, I would respond.”
The pope said, “For me, it’s much easier to call, to ask about the problem and suggest a solution, if there is one. Some people I call, others I write to instead,” according Vigano said.
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