In the burial of Cantinflas, as well as that of Fellini, the coffins were guarded by homeless and workers. Not surprisingly, both authors, geniuses of creativity, were due to them: they were inspired and helped. Last night, to the few who had access to the chapel of the house of Santa Marta, they were moved by the first visitors of the Pontiff’s body were workers of the Holy See and the state of the city of the Vatican, as well as homeless people around the square. The emotion floated in the environment and, in tears, prayers or thanks were masculted. Or both. Pontifical employees are the current papal family of today. Even the Vatican II were Baldacchino’s titles, that is, noble families of Rome, of which most had given popes to the Church. After the council, there was a vacuum that lasted until 2018, when Prince Alessandro Torlonia, banker who had no longer exercised for two decades. With the arrival of Pope Francis, they stopped appointing gentle and thirsty, until three years ago he named them again, but without the need to be noble and with the obligation to be Romans. I didn’t want it to be a title, but a service. The Pope went to meet the destitute, the excluded, those in need. Before the arrival of Francisco, they were ignored that tomorrow, with their two red walks, the thirsty have made their last tribute to Pope Francis. They no longer take him in a gestatorial chair, which Saint John XXIII stopped using, because he was sorry “that they have to take a person of my weight in volars.” Since then they reserve that moment of tribute to the dead pontiff. The same goes for the Swiss guards: they only include the knee when the Pope’s body passes. They have crossed the square as a group of volunteers who thanked Sua Santità for proximity, empathy, help. The same will happen in a brief days with the Gentilhombres: they will accommodate the delegations of the states from elegance but from simplicity. Today also the workers of the Dicasteries (equivalent to our ministries) Vatican, which are accessed by contest and are ordered in ten degrees, have been grouped sad around the delegation, headed by the cardinals that are already in Rome. If intuition does not fail me, any of the papable ones was not yet in it. But there were the guards, gendarmes, gardeners, administrative, restorers, chefs, distributors … and so on the end of the end of trades and professions of the small neighborhood-state of Rome. Cardinal Camarlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell, in the center, observes the body of Pope Francis inside the Basilica of San Pedro. Andrew Medichini / Efe the other group waited outside. Until their arrival they were evicted from the square. Then they were ignored. Pope Francis went to meet him. They are the destitute, the excluded, those in need. They sleep on the street, they ask during the day. The late pontiff listened to them, made them attend, gave them showers and provided them with food. He put them on the agenda, draw the attention of the media about that reality. Yesterday a photo collected a moment that summed up a pontificate. The journalists asked them, respectfully putting themselves at their height. Saint Benito’s rule says: “He who knocks on the door is Christ who happens.” Jesus said it: “Everything you do to each of them, you will be doing to me.” That is why he put in 2018 the pontifical alms, position before dispatch, to tour the streets surrounding the Vatican in his search. As a prize, Konrad Krajewski gave the cardinal. That is the question that I believe that the religious, priest and bishop Jorge Bergoglio, finally Pope Francis, would like him to challenge the congregations of cardinals prior to Conclave: “Who will take care of them now? Who will take care of his legacy? How will the Gospel preach through the testimony?”
Francisco’s heirs
