Day: 27 April 2025

An ocean of people for the Pope of the ‘least’

VATICAN CITY – First the powerful’s farewell, then people’s, finally the least’s, the most important to him and for this very reason appointed to pay him the last “goodbye” before burial, in the spirit of the Gospel: “Blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…”. It’s the funeral of Pope Francis, who made humility his modus vivendi: from the renunciation – in life – of residing in the papal apartment, to the resting – in death – in a simple coffin, on the floor, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of in the Vatican.

Pope Francis, President Trump and Canada’s reticence to meet

TORONTO – Four months after the American Presidential election, the newly elected President has succeeded in defining …Canada. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently, the “beer and popcorn” advisors to the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, anxious to get ahead of the game, “scored a private dinner with “the Donald”, in Mar-a-Lago, so he could prove to the rest of us that he – JT – was still “the man”, polls and caucus notwithstanding.