The world has lost a pope dedicated to the poor and the planet

Pope Francis, the isolated climate moralist

In the weeks before his death, Francis repeated a decade-old plea for a break from both Trumpian greed and the left’s economic rationalism.

Just as the mid-Rome bells ring nine o’clock, the coffin of Pope Francis — discovered and with the body of the Pontiff receiving the first rays of the morning — runs the 700 meters separating the residence of Saint Martha from the Basilica of St. Peter. Perhaps it is the last time that a pontiff makes this path between the walls of the Vatican that marks the austerity with which Jorge Mario Bergoglio decided to live, in a simple residence of nun…

The world has lost a pope dedicated to the poor and the planet

From promoting climate justice to supporting migrants, Pope Francis genuinely practised the ‘preferential option for the poor’.

Francis renewed the image of the Catholic Church, just when he needed it most. Unforgettable and hardly equal.

He gave a face to the faceless: Francis is remembered as the pope of the poor

Pope Francis put the poor in the center of his papacy. For Francis, taking care of those in need meant turning the Vatican upside down.

Close to the poorest and the migrants, François reconciled part of the Italian left with the papacy, when others blame him for his lack of courage on the issue of sexual abuse.