{"id":2086,"date":"2006-05-15T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/an-interview-with-georg.html"},"modified":"2006-05-15T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:33:09","slug":"an-interview-with-georg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/an-interview-with-georg.html","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Georg"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not the secretary – the Pope’s brother. Some charming tidbits.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Scroll down to the bottom of the page. A couple of translation quirks, but that just adds to it.)<\/p>\n

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Then apart from the problem with the eyesight, there are no further problems regarding your health situation?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

I have to be a bit careful with the heart. I have a pacemaker. But all of this is not that tragic. I exercise regularly on my home excercise-bycicle upstairs. Mostly I do it for only the length of a short Psalter. Anyway, I take rarely longer than [the recital of] a rosary and I do it always after lunch. <\/p>\n

In April last year you were worried about your brother\u2019s health.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Yes, but he makes a fresh impression. In former times, I always used to be the healthier person of both of us. He is reasonable he sees to it that he keeps in motion. With both his secretaries he goes for a walk and when walking they pray the rosary. And in the evenings he finishes his work relatively early. At 7 p.m. the audiences are over, then he prays the breviary, at 7.30 p.m. they have dinner, at 8 p.m. they watch the Italian newscast and after that they go for another walk. Then he prays the rest of breviary and goes to sleep. In the evenings, he cannot work anymore he just gets nothing together then. Insofar he leads a fairly orderly live and looks after \/ sees to his forces. <\/p>\n

Does it bother you that you are always asked about your brother?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Well, personally I am not so interesting. What is interesting about me is my brother. This does not bother me. Just when people call and want something from my brother, or that I should arrange something with my brother, then I am annoyed. This happens very often. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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