An exclusive interview with the Conventual Franciscan friar who received the red hat on 28 November 2020 and is the first of his Order to become a cardinal since 1861
BARELY able to raise his hand, a 90-year-old man beckoned to the doctor who was about to place an oxygenation helmet upon him. He told the doctor that he did not want them to waste time and energy on him...
I HAD been ordained a priest for just over a year when, at the end of 1985, I was sent to our friary in Como, in northern Italy, to help my fellow friars during the Christmas celebrations...