"The hospital is a place that we might call, somehow, ‘sacred’, where one experiences the frailty of human nature as well as the huge potentials and resources of man’s ingenuity and technique at the service of life". It was said yesterday morning by Benedict XVI, as he visited the General Hospital of "San Matteo" in Pavia. Before "man’s life", "this great gift", which, "no matter how much it is explored, always remains a mystery", the Pope expressed the wish that "the necessary scientific and technological advancement will always go hand in hand with the awareness of promoting, along with the good of the sick person, those key values, such as the respect and the defence of life at all its stages, on which the truly humane quality of a cohabitation depends". "In addition, the Church, following the example of its Lord, shows added the Pontiff a special predilection for those who suffer and never stops offering the sick the necessary help, aware of being called to show Christ’s love and care for them and for those who take care of them". Actually, he highlighted, "technical and technological help and human love must always go hand in hand". Actually, even if "suffering is repugnant to the human soul", "in every sick person" it is Jesus Himself "who expects our love".
