Papa Franjo passed away in 89. year of life, the Vatican posted, Sky News reports.
He priminated this morning at 7:35 am in the Vatican, after a long fight with health problems. He was born like Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was 266. The church of the Church, but for millions of people around the world was much more – he was a Pope who walked among the people, spoke the language of ordinary man and constantly reminiscent that faith was not hierarchy than love.
This news came quietly, but she immediately echoed deep and around the planet. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who published the news, said Papa Franjo, dedicated his whole life to the Lord and his church, “but many people who know how to laugh, cry and hug people who often do not see.
Born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, he was the first pope from Latin America and the first member of the Society of Jesus in that position. From the moment he in 2013. Inherited the Pope Benedict XVI, it was clear that a new energy came with him in the Vatican – the energy of simplicity, honesty and unclaimed human pain for injustice in the world.
He didn’t wear gold crosses. He refused a luxury. Instead of the Papal Palace, he dialed a more modest home.
Instead of speech about the power of the church, he spoke about migrants, poor, prisoners, forgotten. “Who am I to judge?” Said in 2013. When they asked him about homosexual people – and those words opened the conversation space that the church was missing for a long time. Although Health and the years have pressed him and more, he never stopped being present. And in recent months, while he led a severe struggle with inflammation of the lungs, he remained open to the public – he spoke about pain, fatigue, but also the faith that did not give up. His heritage is complex, but human.
He changed what he could, carried the burden of what he was not, and he never stopped talking about the need for the church “has open doors and a heart that knocks for everyone.”
According to his own desire, he will not be buried in the papal grave, but in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome – the Church in which he often came quietly, out of the glimper lights. He was a pope who knew how to silence, listen, and act with faith, not with sublime. Believers around the world are mourning a leader, but also a friend.
He left Franjo, the Pope reminded us that the church could have a soul – and that he was not ashamed if that soul knows and cry, and to love, reports Liberation.
