A nine-day mourning at the Vatican, the exhibition of the body in the Saint-Pierre basilica, a simplified funeral rite then the expectation of white smoke escaping from the Sistine Chapel. The days following the death of Pope Francis are written, but the heritage of a pontificate imbued with a reforming desire continued to question the international press on Tuesday.
In Rome, The Repubblica Erige François as a last stone of a papal trio, after John Paul II and Benoît XVI: “Wojtyla the soul, ratzinger the spirit, Bergoglio the heart. »» A sovereign pontiff who, moving away from the pomp of the Chair de Saint-Pierre to get closer “Humble, small, weak,” slaves “”marked a rupture whose signs were instantaneous during its first appearance at the Saint-Pierre loggia: “A secular and familiar greeting, not at all solemn or ritual”of a man from “Of Christianity strongly linked to the life of the people rather than to the formulas and the precepts of the Church”Remember Ezio Mauro, ex-director of the second Italian daily life. Above all, an unprecedented reign name that he chooses in reference to “the friend of the poor”,, Saint Francis of Assisi. In short, “A rupture project” for a pope “Reformer who gave a heart to the crisis of modernity”.
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Source: Lemonde