Rome - in his first question-and response TV appearance, shown by national broadcaster Italy on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI calls the Christian minority not to give up Iraq and offered his thoughts on euthanasia and the tsunami in Japan.
Included in a segment last week and one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar the Pope, dressed in white and sit out behind a desk in his library, responded to questions from seven persons selected among thousands of entries aired.
As the book-length interview published in November last year, which seemed TV appearance talk the Pope him directly to his followers, helps to the exactly one year after a sexual abuse crisis in Europe plunged the Roman Catholic world into a tailspin and revealed a profound problems of communication in the Vatican.
There were no curve ball questions among those of Italy's RAI State broadcaster selected - and nothing about the sexual abuse crisis. On Thursday, Benedict the crisis in a liturgy, "the shame we feel about our shortcomings" addressed to speak, but add that "it bright examples of faith," including his predecessor John Paul II., which is expected to be closer to Holiness to a beatification on 1 May to move one step mass.
In the TV question and answer session on Friday, which urged Pope, Christians in the war-torn Iraq "against the temptation to emigrate the very understandable in the circumstances, the it in life."
The program revealed a rich tension between the mysteries of faith and the limitations of the TV interview format.
Asked by an Italian man, "what is Jesus doing in the time between his death and resurrection?" replied the Pope: "This descent of Jesus soul should be presented to the other as a geographical or a spatial travel from one continent." "It is the journey of the soul."
Elena, a seven year old tsunami survivors from Japan, asked: "why children need to be sad?" "Please the Pope, I with God, speaks to me to explain?"
The Pope replied, "this suffering was not empty, it was not free, but behind it was a good plan."
"Can you be sure that God will help them," he added.
The Pope said a woman whose son had been in a vegetative coma since April 2009 that "certainly his soul in his body still exists."
The television interview was part of a talk show where a group of three experts discussed the crucifixion. A slogan at the bottom of the screen read "Answers, the Pope to questions about Jesus."
Later Friday, was to attend a good Friday ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica and then run the annual planned stations of the cross procession in close to the Colosseum Benedict.
The texts for the procession this year were of several nuns, who posted the first time, the Pope prepared by women will read texts.
On Friday, the Vatican also announced that Benedict would be the first Pope call space. On 4 may, he is expected at the contact binds with two Italian astronauts of space shuttle endeavour with the station in the satellite be board the international space station.
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