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00:00Conservatives were unhappy with the Pope from the start because of his informal style.
00:07We know he didn't live in the papal palace. How did he cope with his critics?
00:12Well, he always said that he didn't mind being criticised as long as it was in good faith.
00:20As you said from the beginning, conservatives were unhappy with him.
00:25They accused him of making, of sowing confusion, particularly on issues such as gay rights and also because of the traditions that he no longer thought were important.
00:45Wearing some papal garb, wearing the purple shoes of the fishermen, those kind of things were not important to him.
00:54He did all kinds of things that previous popes did not do.
00:59Some of them were small and some of them were not small, but he wanted to be as close to the common person as possible.
01:08As you said, he chose not to live in the papal apartments.
01:13Now, the papal apartments are not extra luxurious. They are large.
01:17And he decided that he needed for his own mental health, which is the way he put it himself, was to live in a community atmosphere, which is why you chose to live in the Casa Santa Marta, which is a modest hotel in the Vatican.