PPastoralis anintelligat at the beginning of the very beginning of their papacy, saying he preferred the church, which is “destroy, harm and dirty” from being in the streets to one and cautious and pleasing. Although not declined by learning – to the trouble of many football liberal – its 12 years as the pope are marked by deliberate embracing their historically in the edges of the society. And he wanted the church, he said, because “todos, todos” – translates into “all, all.”
Here some people who have met him as Pontificate himself.
“The Our papa life
Few certamints can be changed life to dramatically as a meeting between Nour Essa and Pope Francisco changed. Esa was one of the 12 Muslims Jesus who is Francis met in Greek Island Lesbos in 2016 and flew to Rome aboard her plane.
In a disorder to move on the island to wrestle to a restoration of the risk to explain in Europe, Pope led to 11 Syrians, six of them are smaller than the Italian capital and new life.
“We were on the plane with him,” said Essa, 30. One of the husband, Assen Zaedna, 31, and his child, Riad, who was running in time, which was two years in time, which was in time, which was the time that was fled Biennium at the time of Syria, who was two years to the time of the Civil War. “Thanks to this humanitarian corridor is not championed, the papa saved our lives. And he gave us a new opportunity – not only for our family, but in thousands of people behind us.”
Today, essa works as a biologist to Rome’s Bambino Gesu Hospital. I met with Francis touched her deeply. In the following strategies, astonished, the pope remembered the name of the Asylum asking that he was received.
“I couldn’t believe that” he says. “I am surprised. We met several other times in Rome. And it was like the Catholic Church – was a friend, brother of all migrants, poor, forgetfulness.
Essa followed news Francis’s hospitalization in February with the growing anxiety and after being released, and the ghost initiated shortness of relief.
“When you saw him to bless the faithful in Easter, I thought of the danger,” he said. “This is what the moon, as we have learned and died, we are devastated. These are the sad days of all men. Francis is no more, but his hearts and words.”
Lorenzo Tondo
“It’s up to life
In 2013, shortly after the start of the pontificate, Pope Francisco met Vincio Riva, whose face is severely ugly by rare disease. Photographs in a meeting, in which the two embraces and prayed at the same time, he went viral. Many seemed to be involved in a new pontiff approach to those otherwise flies or marginalized by the company, and pull the hold near.
Raia, who suffered a genetic disorder neurofibromatosis, dead age 58 in January 2024. The meeting with Francis helped him to live happier life, according to Sandra delia soft, C.
“Wing to go through the dark time, which was in the pain and need something to be living,” says Delta soft, who lives in Isola Vicentina in the northern Italy. “Meeting the pope was his return to life.”
Before the meeting, the vineyard was set apart. “No one understood the condition,” Delta said. “Some also thought to be contagious. He stopped riding the bus after one boy and said to his mother, look mama, there’s a monster. And he suffered terribly from it.”
On St. Peter square before thousands of murderers, Francisco paused in prayer and put his hands on the conquering, as a man was buried in the pope.
“Pope embraced him without asking if you were contagious, without asking anything,” says the della soft. “And on that day, Vincitius changed life.”
Della molle, vineyard is aunt, who was cured to death, confirmed the impact of the pope of the gesture. “And it is more football, more open, could see the sun in the dark day,” he said.
WINE KEEP A POPE NEARLY. The aunt also printed calendar featuring image and distributed in the family.
“I am still the calendar with a win and pope Francisco hanging in the office,” Sandra said. “I look at it often and saw it again in the Francesco died. I Pictured Vinico, elsewhere up there, waiting to embrace the pope sometimes.”
Lorenzo Tondo
“It states the human dignity
When George White, from the other side of the Master Leicestrie, the pope met the Pope October, which took a few hours to the significant moment to sink in.
“He took a book on the transparent life in the Catholic Church, within which were letters from me and others. And thanks to me and said,” God bless you, “white said. “It was not enough surreal. The holy father of Blessed is open to a man. It was stated that the human dignity.”
White, 31, and three other others eternal queued a 7am in St. Peter Square to Pope’s ordinary Wednesday audience. Francis – “quite fragile, even then” – worked a crowd in a wheelchair. When you get it white in small groups, and a little listening to what he said in the translator.
And the hand of the hands of the one, and he perspiced in the other, in the hand of the second to the end of the encounter. “This is the most importance of my life,” said white.
White do not grow in the Catholic family and baptized age 16. When he went out as a transgender seven years later, to navigate their identity as the transparency of the person and Catholic.
“I am very worried about that people [in the church] I do not reject me, but also in favor of Francisco, “he said.
First Papacy, Francis sign a sign in the sea, when he said: “Who am I to judge?” the question of a gay clergy. Damaged Discrimination LGBTQ + People, and regularly occurred across the men and women.
“He was listening to the people and taking their stories and then understanding how to pastor. It is not seen from the previous pope. It is not seen from all the pope. It’s not seen from all papa. His own.
“There are some people who feel that LGBTQ + people can not be obtained in the church, and it is not open from what we are. But who is to me, in parish and communities and of course in me, which was heard.”
Francisco’s death came to the shock despite his poor health. “I’m worried about the Pope was more conservative and what he opened the dialogue and disappear. I hope the Holy Spirit will guide the cardinal” plan “said white.
Harriet Sherwood
“He became like a father and brother to me
When, in November 2023, Pope Francis heard that MBenue Nyimbilo Crépín -known -Cnown, a 30-old Cameroonian Asylon ceremony – when I went to meet him with the passing of 22, once asked to meet him with the passage of 22, once asked to meet him with the passage 22, he immediately asked to meet him with a transit 22, once asked to meet him with 22, once asked him.
Summer before a photograph of the wife, fate dosso and six-year daughter of Marie, lying face-up in the desert was considered about the world. Fate and Marie was dead thirst around Libya, tunisia term.
Just two days after coming, crépin and Francis occurred in a small room in the Vatican. “I couldn’t believe someone as it doesn’t bow to meet someone like me,” said Crépín. “But I understood this is the one who – humble, compassionate, truly human.”
Francis is the very first trip outside of Rome after the election was to the lampedusa, Italian island near the thousand people are drowned attempting to Europe. Crépín had a sense that, for the Pope, meeting with him, perhaps more significant than the audience with some head state.
“Wanted to all detail on the road,” Crépín said. “He told me he carried others’ suffering in his own heart. He helped me to stay in Rome, and we spoke often. Over time, he became like a father or a brother to me.” I am not only a pope, “he would say, 1 am a brother to all, a father to all.” I mean it. “
Crépín says he tires the words in the dark moments with the memories of his wife and daughter threatens to force him. “And he said to me, ‘I am going to go, open. Don’t give up. Don’t look” “added. “When I heard passing on the moon, and I felt a hollow pain in my heart. Once again, and became a fatherless.”
Lorenzo Tondo
“I gave us hope”
Isabel Diaz is a sense of disbelief with her all by the way by flight to the three dozen other Spanish women took Rome nearly eight years.
In the early 2017, she and his members of the archdiœcesis Toledo’s Santa Teresa Group for separated and divorced women that wrote the Pope Francisco after reading Love happiness, Pope 256-page reflection in the joy of love. Most of the moving devices recovering people in the arms of the church. Francisco replied immediately, invite the VAT to chat.
“He was very Jolly and all the nerves have gone as soon as we began to tell him,” said Díaz, 64. “He was a very straight humility, goodness and joy.”
The thing she noticed most of them was, however, was the prince’s sympathy and his ability to hear. If you speak to him about something happy, you see what they heard you, “he said.” But if you were telling him about some troublesome, he changed his face and do not see the pain in it. “
As many others separated or divorced Catholic, Diaz was upset by an idea that fell in the eyes of the church.
“It is not what I felt wrong when I came to the Mass, which was just that I felt odd and upset, because of all the focus in the house,” he said. “That’s why I mean so much. I always felt that I was in the embracing church, but I felt that even more strongly after the trip. “
Esperanza Gomez-menor, another member group, felt exactly the same after the meeting. “I have not felt like I am embraced by the church, as a man who was wounded or like a sheep perished, which returns to fold,” he said.
The audience, which would have been due to the last hour, extends to another 40 minutes. When you finally ended, women struck a sight of Francisco turn off the lights in the room and not filed out.
One of the Rosary, Francisco gave it to the encounter with something díz always treasure. “Going there was just being in a dream, and the way back it felt like a plane heavier, because the entire full hope,” he said. “He gave us hope.”
Sam Jones