I will tell you about the love of parents that overcomes every trial

The daily heroism of parents, evoked by Pope Francis in the interview recently published in the daily edition of L’Osservatore Romano, is also that of the mothers and fathers who live the most painful and, in many respects, incomprehensible experience that a person — even with the support of faith — has to endure: the sickness and suffering of their child. “Why do children suffer?”, Dostoevsky wondered, and with him, basically each one of us. One person who meets these families every day, in their anxiety and hope, is Mariella Enoc. She has been President of Bambino Gesù, the largest paediatric hospital in Europe, since 2015. We asked her, as she welcomed us to this place of suffering and love that “stole her heart away”, to allow us to “enter” ideally and on tiptoe the hospital wards to touch that heroic strength the Pope speaks ...