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| A sign on the door of Pope Francis's private apartment at the Vatican reads "No Complaining" (AFP Photo/VATICAN INSIDER - La Stampa) |
Vatican
City (AFP) - Pope Francis carries the weight of the world's poor and suffering
on his shoulders: the last thing he needs is people turning up at his apartment
for a whinge.
Vietato
lamentarsi (no complaining) reads a sign in Italian hung on the door to Pope
Francis's private rooms in the Vatican that was given to him by a psychologist,
according to a religious expert close to the pontiff.
Psychologist
Salvo Noe, author of motivational guides, gave it to Francis at the end of an
audience on Saint Peter's Square last month, journalist Andrea Tornielli said
on the "Vatican Insider" website.
"I
will put it up on my office door where I receive visitors," the pope is
said to have promised with a smile.
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Pope
Francis celebrates Mass at the Vatican (AFP Photo/Alberto PIZZOLI)
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But in the
end he chose to hang it at the entrance to his modest living quarters in the
Santa Marta hotel in the tiny state.
The
Argentine often tries to buck up gloomy believers by telling them to cast off
their melancholy and stop grumbling.
The sign's
small print warns offenders "are subject to developing a victim complex,
resulting in a lowering... of their capacity to solve problems".
"The
penalty is doubled whenever the violation is committed in the presence of
children," it says, adding: "To be your best you have to focus on
your own potential and not on your limits, so stop whining and act to make your
life better".
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