(The Archbishop of Canterbury) Reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the papal inauguration of
Pope Francis – and on his first meeting with the Pope – the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, said:
“One of the most astonishing images from the Covid-19 pandemic was
the image of Pope Francis, totally alone in the dark and cold of St
Peter’s Square, delivering an ‘Urbi et Orbi’ – a blessing ‘to the city
and to the world’. In a square that would normally be packed with
people, Pope Francis spoke of stormy times to a scattered world.
Reflecting in the Gospel story of Jesus calming the storm, the Pope
said: ‘We are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but
at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together,
each of us in need of comforting the other.’ (...)
