“There will be some bleeding, some outflow. We believe that’ll be controlled. And once we get the message that things begin to get back to normal I think we will be able to lift those controls. I think we are talking a matter of weeks.”
Pope Francis has announced that he won’t move into the official papal apartments but will instead remain in a Vatican guesthouse. The Pope’s spokesman said he wanted to live in
community
with others. He will be the first pontiff for more than a century not to occupy the Pope’s official apartment. David Willey reports
Pope Francis has been living since his election in a simple two-room suite and intends to go on living there for the foreseeable future according to the Vatican spokesman. He will take his meals in the common dining room together with other visiting clerics and permanent residents. About half of the 105 suites in the residence are occupied by Vatican staff. Pope Francis’ simple new communal home contrasts with a much larger accommodation currently being renovated inside the walls of the Vatican for the future use of the now retired former Pope Benedict.
Amanda Knox, the American student who was acquitted two years ago of murdering her British flatmate in Italy has said it’s painful that Italy’s Highest Criminal Court has ordered a retrial. Miss. Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were originally jailed for killing Meredith Kercher in 2007 but their conviction was then overturned on appeal.