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Pope Saw Female, Jewish Psychoanalyst Weekly At 42 To Clarify Some Things
By Associated Press
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/pope-francis-psychoanalyst-weekly-sessions
"SNIP...........
The 80-year-old pope also speaks of his state of mind now. “I feel free. Sure, I’m in a cage here at the Vatican, but not spiritually. Nothing makes me afraid.”
What bothers him, he ventured, are people with straitjacket point-of-views.
He singled out “rigid priests, who are afraid to communicate. It’s a form of fundamentalism. Whenever I run into a rigid person, especially if young, I tell myself that he’s sick.”
But Francis concludes that “in reality, they are persons looking for security.”
.............SNIP"