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Papa Francisco in his last public appearance, the Blessing Urbi et Orbi, on Easter Sunday in 2025
Excerpts from Jorge Bergoglio’s passage through the Vatican. It was an “Argentine who transformed the church.” And “All, all, all,” was in Lisbon.
It is the end of a different era in the Catholic Church. , in the early hours of this Monday, April 21, 2025. The day after Easter Sunday.
When it was chosen at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, it was a different choice, considered risky. And became one of the most striking spiritual leaders of the last century.
It was an “Argentine who transformed the church”, read the Argentine newspaper on Monday. It has always been “with the most vulnerable,” said France President Emmanuel Macron. He was a “extraordinary” pope and we should follow his example, the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro.
12 years
Between March 13, 2013 (day Jorge Mario Bergoglio was announced as Pope) and April 21, 2025 (day of his death) spent 12 years.
Number 12 is not a detail in the Bible: it is the number of universality.
“That’s why in the Gospel of St. Lucas, in chapter 10, it is said that there were not only 12 disciples but more,” explained biblist Joaquim Carreira das Neves, to.
It is a number that crosses the entire Bible: 162 times appears. There will have been 12 tribes of Israel in the Old Testament; There are also 12 minor prophets, the last 12 prophetic books of the old party; 12 gates are mentioned in the book of Revelation.
The gospel of Luke also indicates that Jesus was 12 years old when he stayed in the temple, listening and talking to the speakers.
Jesus chose 12 apostles to preserve original symbolism – when Judas died, the other 11 chose Matias to replace him to keep the group of 12.
It is a positive number, which has originated in the sexagemal system of the Sumerians. It is an election number.
Striking phrases
To the ride, we remember striking phrases of your pontificate.
Communist? Poor
“For some the Pope is communist. It is not understood that the love of the poor is at the center of the Gospel! Earth, home and work, what they are struggling, are sacred rights. Demanding it is not strange, it is the social doctrine of the Church.”
Peace in the couple
“There are three magic words: ‘Ask permission’ so as not to be invasive in the life of the spouse; ‘Thank you’, thank what the other has done for me; and” excuse, “which is sometimes more difficult, but it is necessary to say it. The secret is that love is stronger than the moment I discussed and, therefore, I do not advise the day when they argue without making up, always.
Young people
“Young people are always the hope of a new unity for fragmented and divided humanity. But only if they have a memory, only if the dramas and the dreams of the elderly. It is no coincidence that war has returned to Europe at the moment the generation that lived in the last century is disappeared. There is a need for the alliance between young people and the elderly, not to forget the lessons of history, to overcome polarizations and the extremism of this time.”
Elderly
“Grandparents and the elderly are not leftover life, waste to throw away. But it is those precious pieces of bread left on the table of our life, which can still nourish us with a fragrance we lose, the fragrance of memory.”
Married parents
“In the Catholic Church there are married priests: the whole oriental rite is married. There is no contradiction in which a priest can marry. Celibacy in the Western church is a temporary prescription: I do not know if it is resolved in one way or another, but it is provisional in this sense.”
Abuse
“A bishop who changes a priest when a pedophilia case is recognized is an unconscious and the best thing he can do is present the renunciation. Is it clear?”
“The abuse of men and women of the Church – abuse of authority, abuse of power and sexual abuse – is a monstrosity. A priest cannot continue to be a priest if he is abuser. He cannot. Because he is sick or a criminal.”
Money
“Money should serve and not rule. Most men and women of our time continue to live in a daily precariousness with funestry consequences: fear and despair.”
Policy
“Involving in politics is an obligation for the Christian. We Christians cannot make ourselves pilate and wash our hands, we cannot! We must imply politics, because politics is one of the highest forms of charity, as it seeks the common good.”
Mobile phone
“Lent is the good time to give way to God’s Word. It is time to turn off television and open the Bible. It is time to disconnect from the mobile phone and connect to the gospel. It is time to speak to you with the Lord.”
Months after this balance, another strong sentence: “If a person is gay, Looking for God and has goodwill, who am I to judge her?
And, in the remarkable passage through Lisbon to the in 2023, this idea was in memory: “In the church there is room for everyone. And when there is no, please make it even for those who make a mistake, for those who fall, for those who feel difficulty. All, all, all“.
Formula for happiness
The newspaper also recalls a kind of 10 commandments for happiness, which Pope Francis presented in 2014.
The Pope argued that the first step is to live and let live. Then we should give us to others and move slowly.
Playing with the younger ones and helping young people get a job is also essential, as well as being with their family on Sunday.
Taking care of nature, quickly forgetting bad times, respecting others’ thinking, and actively seeking peace were the other central points commented by Francis.
Pope Francis’ last public meeting was this Sunday, Easter Day, with US Vice President Jd Vance.
Pope Francis’ last official state meeting was yesterday with US Vice President Jd Vance. After 12 years of pontificate, the Pope died today at the age of 88.
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