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His public life. he is going to lead a different kind of life in a different kind of service to god. and he spoke yesterday when he gave his final public speech, or what we thought was his final public speech. he talked got how the pope haas no privacy. i really thought that that was fascinating, that every single minute of your life as pope is played out on the world stage, you have the burden of all the sins of 1.2 billion catholics around the world and what a heavy burden that is and to relinquish that burden when you are still alive is an extraordinary step. but one thing i wanted to follo...

Because this is an extraordinary view, one that we very rarely get, few people have seen inside the walls of castle gandolpho, they see the facade from the town itself. there's part of this fortress that overlooks lake albano that was actually developed by john lorenzo bernini under pope alexander vii. it is a triangular shaped swathe of land in the town, it's about as liz mentioned, 135 acres and it also has a working farm, fruits, vegetables, oils, eggs, that provide what his requirement will be like and this is a place where this pope, who is about to step down from the highest profile reli...

Going to be his approach, a very regular schedule, time for prayer, time for study. as ann mentioned earlier, even though this is his last public appearance today, when he goes back to private life, it's not really a completely private life as he mentioned yesterday, he's not going to be able to go travel and see things, and go to the museums, no. he is going to be sharing in the cross of christ in a different way, not in the public eye, but his life will still be limited, he will still be loving the church, as he put it and ouring himself for the good of all the people that god loves and want...