Pope Francis has ruled out a possible resignation, which he calls a “remote hypothesis” that will only occur due to a “serious physical obstacle” although he says that when he was hospitalized, some in the Vatican were “more interested in politics, in the election campaign, almost thinking about a new conclave.”

“It is true that the Vatican is the last absolute monarchy in Europe and that courtly speculations and maneuvers often take place here, but these models must be completely abandoned.” notes in “Life. My Story Through History,” an autobiography that will be published next week but will be announced this Thursday on Corriere della Sera.

An Italian newspaper publishes excerpts from a book written by the 88-year-old Pope. with the Vaticanist and his personal friend Fabio Marchesein which he looks at his life from childhood to the present, and comments on great historical moments, from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the military coup in Argentina to the pandemic.

“I believe that Peter’s ministry in life and therefore I do not see any conditions for resignation. The situation would change if a serious physical obstacle were to arise, and In this case, I already signed my letter of resignation at the beginning of the pontificate. which is kept by the Secretary of State. If that happened, I would not call myself pope emeritus, but simply bishop emeritus of Rome, and would move to Santa Maria Maggiore to become a confessor again,” he says.

“But this is a distant hypothesis, because I really don’t have such strong reasons to think about resigning. “Someone over the years may have hoped that sooner or later, perhaps after hospitalization, I would make such a statement, but there is no such risk: thank God I am healthy,” he adds.

About the attacks he received He says he was offended that he “destroyed the papacy.”: At the 2013 conclave, “there was a great desire to change something, to abandon certain views, which, unfortunately, still do not disappear. There are always those who try to stop the reforms, those who would like to remain motionless during the time of the pope-king,” he says.

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Francisco talks about his grandparents and how the Piedmontese dialect of northern Italy was his “first mother tongue.” how his family escaped a shipwreck that killed 300 migrants at the beginning of the 20th century or from Italian films and songs that have always accompanied it.

He also gives his opinion on topics such as abortion, surrogacy or acceptance of homosexuals into the Churchreferring to his relationship with his predecessor Benedict XVI and talking about Diego Maradona, Leo Messi and his passion for football.

But about the military coup in Argentina, when he hid three seminarians who helped him “accept other at-risk youth like them for at least twenty two years,” and his role in the release of two Jesuits expelled by the company and kidnapped by the regime.

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“It was generational genocide”“, says the Pope and adds: “The accusations against me continued until recently. “This was the revenge of those who knew how strongly I opposed these atrocities.”

(EFE)