The Pope died after an 88 -year -old brain spill on Easter only one day after greeting the crowds in the city of the Vatican,
The leader of the Roman Catholics of the world and the first Jesuit Pontiff, his body will be presented for public hearing in the Basilica of San Pedro as of Wednesday, so the mourners can present their respects to a man named to the Pope of the people.
Priests from all over the municipality have paid tribute to the late Bishop of Rome, who will be buried on Saturday.
Monsignor Phelim Rowland, pastor of the Catholic Church of Santa María in Hampstead, said: “Pope Francis is the seventh Pope in my life. Each notable, three of them canonized holy.
“Francis gave the world already the Church what I needed, Christian leadership, prophetic comments inspired by faith and a deep compassion for the marginalized.
“I with two potatoes in my 50 years of priesthood. Francis made you want to stay and speak and listen to it. Each Pope has individual causes, tastes and dislikes. Everyone has to realize that the work is bigger than them.
Father George K Antony, Catholic priest at St Joseph’s Highgate, said the Pope was “so child and compassionate.”
He added: “In this situation we needed something like that. His love for migrants and less privileged, by the LGBTQ, these things stand out.
“He became a bit revolutionary, asking priests who give blessings to same -sex couples. Especially when Minister in London, we find all these realities like other places.
“It was challenging us to be more reflective.”
Or a new Pope said: “We are going to move him away from that direction. He established a trajectory for the Church, he will continue, I am sure that it is not another way in which we can move on.”
Fr. Matthew Jarvis, previous in the San Dominic priororate, in Gospel Oak, said that with Pope Francis in 2016 and has prayed for him as since then.
He said: “It was very special. I mentioned the fact that he had just ordered and his face simply lit up. He said in his simple English ‘pray for me’ and took it seriously.”
He added that the Pope was also “based on tradition”, adding: “Outside the church, people said that Pope Francis was just a liberal, all about the future, but it is not fair for man and what he is trying to do and say.
“Hello, much better than their critics have realized and it was much more interesting than some of their followers realized, since they put it in a species or ‘liberal box’, and that is not fair.”
