Pope Francis greets reporters on flight from Rome to
Havana
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
greeted the reporters who joined him on the plane Friday for his apostolic
journey to Havana – for a brief meeting with Russian Patriarch Kirill – and
Mexico.
The Director of the Holy See
Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, said the Holy Father had a
“beautiful meeting” with the journalists, and called the journey “very
important.”
Father Lombardi said the Pope
noted it was the final apostolic trip of Alberto Gasbarri, the coordinator of
papal journeys, and thanked him for his 47 years of service to the Vatican.
The dean of the Holy See
Press Corps, Valentina Alazraki of Mexico’s “Televisa”, gave Pope Francis
a sombrero to celebrate his journey to her native country. The Holy Father also
revealed to the journalists she gave him some films starring the Mexican comedian
Cantinflas earlier in the week to help him prepare for his trip, which Pope
Francis said were a “good laugh.”
“My deepest desire is to
pause before Our Lady of Guadalupe, this mystery that is studied, and studied,
and studied, and there is no human explanation,” Pope Francis said on the
plane, adding even scientists say the image is "a thing of God."
Wall Street Journal
correspondent Francis X. Rocca sent a Facebook
messagefrom the plane describing an “unusual” and “moving” encounter, with
Noel Diaz of ESNE Catholic television in Los Angeles.
“As a child in his native
Tijuana, Mexico, Diaz shined shoes for money. So today he knelt down in the
aisle and shined the pope's shoes, then gave him a custom-made shoeshine kit,”
Rocca writes. “Diaz told the pope he intended these presents as reminders of
the unheralded struggles of ordinary, honest people across Mexico and among
immigrants to the U.S.”
Responding to press reports
of a papal visit to Colombia, Pope Francis said he could visit the country in
2017 if peace talks between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) continue to go forward.
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