"I didn't want to be pope."

Those were the exact words of Pope Francis last Friday during his Q&A with the thousands of children from Jesuit schools across Italy and Albania. The pope showed his spontaneous and personal side as he answered the questions of the children.

The most crucial question came from Teresa, a bright-eyed redhead no more than six. She asked him flat out if he wanted to be a pope. Pope Francis joked around before he answered, "I didn't want to be pope."

Another question asked was why he had renounced the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace in favor of his spare suite in the Vatican hotel, where he has been living ever since the March conclave that elected him the first Jesuit pope and first pontiff from the Americas.

The pope simply said: ""If I was living alone, isolated, it wouldn't be good for me. A professor asked me the same question, 'why don't you go and live there (in the Papal apartments)'? And I replied: 'Listen to me professor, it is for psychiatric reasons,'"