Pope Francis died. – This morning at 7:35 the bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to his father's house – announced Cardinal Kevin Farrell. Holy Father For months he suffered from many health ailments that prevented him from participating in subsequent events. Argentinean Jorge Mario Bergoglio played the role of the head of the Catholic Church since 2013.
Pope Francis is dead. “I pray that it stays with his teaching”
Father Robert Woźniak, professor of theological sciences and specialist in dogmatic theology, in 2016 he was a translator Pope Francis during World Youth Day in Krakow. – It was the best retreat in my life, I will always repeat it. On the one hand, it was a very restless time, because a lot was happening, a lot of meetings. On the other hand, all those moments I was alone with him. His tact, his personal culture and his very simple, noble and deep faith – says a priest in an interview with Interia.
– After the pope, what he wrote in “Evangelii Gaudium”, about the revolution of tenderness. About experiencing closeness in the church. It was such a golden thread of the entire pontificate, which at the end, especially in recent years, led to the education of the idea of synodality. Of course, she is not new in the church. The synodality, which Pope Francis understood as a certain culture of referring to all members of the Church. In the spirit of love, acceptance and forgiveness, but listening to God the most – explains the professor.
“Synodality is a return to the experience of the first church”
– It was a form of returning to the sources. For Francis, it was important to return to the original church, to the Apostolic Church. It is not such a return that we leave what we have today, the whole experience of two thousand years and we want to recreate what it used to be – explains our interlocutor.
– We want to recreate the relationships that were once between Christians, maintaining all the baggage of the experience of these thousands of years. And Pope Francis was such a sage who, from his treasury, as Jesus says in the Gospel, pulled both old and new things – he explains.
– The synodality of Pope Francis is certainly some form of returning to the experience of the first church – concludes the priest.
Pope Francis is dead. “We recommend his soul”
This morning at 7:35 Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to his father's house – announced Cardinal Kevin Farrell. – His life was devoted to the service of the Lord and his church. He taught us to live with the values of the Gospel with loyalty, courage and universal love, especially for the poorest and most marginalized. With great gratitude for his example as a real student of the Lord Jesus, we recommend the soul of Pope Francis infinite merciful love of the only God in the Trinity – added the cardinal.