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Pope Francis interrupts the General Audience and speaks on the phone (VIDEO)

Da David Sabbatini -

Unusual event: During yesterday's weekly general audience, Wednesday 11 August, Papa Francesco got a phone call.

A live streaming video of the hearing in'Pope Paul VI Hall of the Vatican showed the Pontiff who was imparting his apostolic blessing. Suddenly he was approached by one of his assistants who, after a brief conversation, handed him a cell phone.

According to those who witnessed the scene, Pope Francis spoke on the phone for about two minutes, then he motioned to the crowd that he would be back soon and left the classroom. He returned shortly after to greet those present.

At the moment no other information is known about the mysterious phone call. The moment took place at the end of Pope Francis' Wednesday general audience, after the recitation of the Our Father in Latin.

Papal audiences were suspended in July for the summer break and resumed this month.

During his audience, Pope Francis spoke of Galatians 3:19, which says: “Why then the law? It was added for transgressions, up to the coming of the offspring for which the promise was made, and it was promulgated through angels through a mediator ”.

"Why the law?" This is the question we want to deepen today ”, Pope Francis said, explaining that when Saint Paul“ speaks of the Law, he usually refers to the Mosaic Law, the law given by Moses, the ten commandments ”.

St. Paul explains to the Galatians that with the coming of Christ, the Law and the Covenant of God with the Israelites "are not indissolubly linked".

"The people of God - said the Pontiff - we Christians walk through life looking towards a promise, the promise is what attracts us, attracts us to move forward towards an encounter with the Lord".

Francis explained that St. Paul did not oppose the Ten Commandments but that "several times in his letters he defends their divine origin and says that he has a well-defined role in the history of salvation".