Day: 28 April 2025

Pope Francis – In the coffin as a poor man, with worn-out shoes

VATICAN CITY – In English, it’s “to put yourself in someone’s shoes” …it means that to feel what someone else feels, you just have to wear their shoes. Pope Francis did it, wearing, even in death as well as in life, poor man’s shoes. No red papal slippers like Wojtyla, nor black moccasins like Ratzinger. On his feet, in a coffin already as a pauper, the black (orthopedic) shoes that he used in life, old, worn out. The same shoes that walked around the world with him, so committed to bringing a new evangelization made of welcoming the “least.” And like those “least,” he wanted to wear, even in death as well as in life, his very normal shoes.

CORRIERE CANADESE / Francesco, Trump e l’occasione persa dal Canada

TORONTO – A quattro mesi dalle elezioni presidenziali americane, il neoeletto Presidente è riuscito a definire… il Canada. Sì, avete letto bene. A quanto pare, i consiglieri del Primo Ministro Justin Trudeau, ansiosi di anticipare i tempi, organizzarono una cena privata con ‘The Donald’ a Mar-a-Lago, così da poter dimostrare a tutti che lui – cioè JT – era ancora “l’uomo“, nonostante sondaggi e caucus non reggessero… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>