Joking that he’s like a pharmacist, Pope Francis is promoting prayer as medicine for the heart.
Appearing today at his studio window, Francis held up a rosary in a box designed to resemble a packet of pills, before
volunteers distributed thousands of those boxes, which feature a design of a human heart.
Francis said he was recommending reciting the rosary prayer as a “spiritual medicine” that is “good for the heart.”
Francis’ down-to-earth way of speaking, in a style ordinary people can readily understand, is drawing larger than usual
crowds to St Peter’s Square for his traditional weekly appearances. About 80,000 tourists and Romans packed the
square today.
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