{"id":29879,"date":"2013-08-25T09:34:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29879"},"modified":"2013-08-25T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T05:34:29","slug":"write-to-the-pope-and-he-may-call-you-back-pontiff-has-been-telephoning-people-who-send-him-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29879","title":{"rendered":"Write to the Pope and he may call you back: Pontiff has been telephoning people who send him letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pope<\/a>A word of warning to those who write personal notes to Pope Francis: He might just call you back.<\/p>\n

Francis has already charmed the masses with his informal style, simplicity and sense of humour.<\/p>\n

But a handful of strangers have gotten the treatment up close, receiving papal phone calls out of the blue after writing him or suffering some personal tragedy.<\/p>\n

So the Catholic faithful are being warned: Be ready, especially if the landline rings.<\/p>\n

The 76-year-old Francis has a fondness for making calls the old-fashioned way, using land lines and placing the calls himself, often surprising recipients by simply announcing: ‘It’s the pope.’<\/p>\n

Francis has since called an Italian man whose brother was killed and a Colombian woman who works in Rome to thank her for a book.<\/p>\n

The recipient of this week’s call, a 19-year-old student Stefano Cabizza, was quoted by Corriere as saying that Francis had told him to refer to him with the informal ‘tu,’ noting that ‘Even Jesus and the apostles used the “tu”.’<\/p>\n

Mr Cabizza said he received the call after leaving a letter for Francis following his Mass at Castel Gandolfo on August 15.<\/p>\n

He declined to say what he had written.<\/p>\n

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