While answering letters from children around the world, Pope Francis finally decided to write to all children in the world irrespective of caste, creed, race religion or ethnicity.

Words from little minds were thought provoking and inspiring to him.

In the midst of his busy schedule, as the head of 1.2 billion Catholics, and age-related health issues, he found time to answer to as many letters as possible.

“Dear Pope Francis,” 10-year-old Mohammed begins, “Will the world be again as it was in the past?”

The Pope’s response to Mohammed spoke in part of suffering and the people who inflict it: “There are those who manufacture weapons so that people fight each other and wage war. There are people who have hate in their hearts. There are people who are interested only in money and would sell everything for it. They would even sell other people,” he wrote.

More to Mohammed’s point, Francis answered: “No, when the time comes, the world will not be as it was. It will be far better than it was in the past.”

Signed “Respectfully yours,” Mohammed wrote from a Jesuit-run school for refugee children in Syria and was treated to a long and personal answer from the pope himself. So were 29 other children who posed questions to Francis in letters from around the globe for a new book poignantly illustrated with their own artwork.

The book titled “Dear Pope Francis,” will be out on March 1 from Loyola Press in Chicago. It’s a project that likely wouldn’t have materialized without the help of Father Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit priest and the director of La Civilta Cattolica, a Roman Catholic journal published in Rome.

Tom McGrath of the Jesuit-founded publishing house co-edited the book with Spadaro after reaching out to the priest for help. Spadaro brought about 50 letters with questions to the pope so he could select 30. Spadaro sat with the pope as he responded to each. Holy Father often complimented the artwork of the children.

Once the pope agreed to participate in the project, Loyola reached out to priests and lay people around the world to connect the publisher with children to write the letters. The 30 kids in the book range in age from 6 to 13. In all, about 250 letters were selected in 14 languages from 26 countries around the globe. The pope wound up with about 50 letters from which to choose. “He loved the project right from the beginning,” McGrath said. “He has this great affection for children, who have a great affection for him. He was surprised at the depth of the questions.”

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