“We cannot conclude our meeting without remembering so gratitude to the beloved Pope Francis, That a month ago he returned to the father’s house“, Said Leo XIV at the end of the encounter with the faithful.
The Pontiff reminded his predecessor against the more than 25 thousand people who attended his first audience on Wednesday, which caused great expectation.
Leo XIV was chosen on May 8, in the conclave that followed the death of Francisco, who died on April 21, Easter Monday, the day after having left the balcony of the Plaza de San Pedro to greet the faithful.
During his first interventions, the new Pope has remembered Francisco on all occasions, and also wanted to do it this Wednesday, the day a month after the death of his predecessor, at 88.
On another theme, Leo XIV asked this Wednesday to allow humanitarian aid entry in Gaza and end the hostilities.
“The situation in the Gaza Strip is always more and more painful,” said the American pontiff at the end of the audience before the faithful gathered in the Vatican Square.
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“I renew my call to consent to the arrival of dignified humanitarian aid and to put an end to hostilities, whose distressing price is paying children, elders and sick people,” said the pontiff.