Some right-wing critics accused the pontiff of ‘deifying the poor and the marginalised’, but he understood the world’s suffering
Pope Francis attends the unveiling in 2019, in St Peter’s Square, of Angels Unaware by Canadian sculptor Timothy P Schmalz, which depicts a group of 140 migrants of various cultures. Photo: Getty
He will be a man about whom many stories will be told, not just now, but beyond all our own lives. It is the mark of a good human being that the stories about them will be varied. But it is a considerable mark that the stories he, or she, invokes will always be about others.
Pope Francis often said that as human beings we long for a new world.
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