Rhode Island boy's embrace with Pope Francis still resonates a decade later

Rhode Island boy's embrace with Pope Francis still resonates a decade later

A boy from Rhode Island was the heart of one of the first viral images of Pope Francis' papacy, in an embrace seen around the world.

Explaining Pope Francis' embrace of people on the margins

When Pope Francis first appeared after his election in 2013, he did so in a simple white cassock with a wooden cross. Francis was also the first pope from Latin America -- celebrated for his humility and love for the people. James Grimaldi, executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter, joins to discuss.

The letter has been read to the Trump administration for its treatment of migrants. The greatest but of its pontificate is that it changed the Vatican forms so that, in the background, everything remained the same in a church accustomed to surviving winds and tides. His first trip defined the line of his papacy. He went to Lampedusa, the Italian island that staged the migration drama every day. Pope Francis has died and the people, believers or …

I have just read the speech of Pope Francis delivered on 28 October 2014 in the Old Hall of the Synod.

In his passage through the earthly world and to his last breath of life, Pope Francis raised the vindication flags of the social movements, to whom he opened the door of the Catholic Church and accompanied them with body and spirit in the struggle for the “Triple T”: land, roof and work. Upon arriving at the throne of the Holy See, he seated at his table the popular movements, with which he had forged ties since his youth, when he embraced the p…