Category: Faith & Religion

CORRIERE CANADESE / Papa, “extra omnes” il 7 maggio

CITTÀ DEL VATICANO – “Extra omnes”: sarà pronunciata il prossimo 7 maggio la storica formula in Latino alla quale segue la chiusura a chiave, “cum clave”, della Cappella Sistina: la data del conclave che eleggerà il successore di Papa Francesco è stata stabilita ieri mattina dai circa 180 cardinali presenti (quelli elettori sono 135, ma uno ha dato forfait per motivi di salute: il cardinale di Valencia Antonio Canizares Llovera), riuniti nella Congregazione Generale in Vaticano… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Pope Francis – In the coffin as a poor man, with worn-out shoes

VATICAN CITY – In English, it’s “to put yourself in someone’s shoes” …it means that to feel what someone else feels, you just have to wear their shoes. Pope Francis did it, wearing, even in death as well as in life, poor man’s shoes. No red papal slippers like Wojtyla, nor black moccasins like Ratzinger. On his feet, in a coffin already as a pauper, the black (orthopedic) shoes that he used in life, old, worn out. The same shoes that walked around the world with him, so committed to bringing a new evangelization made of welcoming the “least.” And like those “least,” he wanted to wear, even in death as well as in life, his very normal shoes.