Canberrans remember Pope Francis
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00:00Canberran Catholics have been immediate, but not only the Catholics in praying for Pope
00:05and gratitude, but just in the last 12 hours I've received very fervent sentiments from
00:11leaders of the Islam, Jewish and Hindu faiths.
00:16They've come and said how much they meant to him, how the Pope meant to them, so he
00:21was a real internationalist in that, not just a Pope for the Catholics, certainly that, but
00:26for all of us.
00:27We pray for our Pope, he was such a lovely down-to-earth Pope, and we wish that we can
00:35get a new Pope as he was, to lead our Catholic community, and we pray for our Pope always,
00:45he will be always remembered in our minds.
00:50The Australians would love him because he was very Australian, he was low-key, sense of humour,
00:55we had a few jokes together, and there was a time for 90 minutes in four or five years
01:02ago, where all the bishops of Australia, about 35 of us gathered with him, for a good 90 minutes,
01:08it was just us.
01:09He said, oh well I've prepared a formal statement, if you want it you can take it on the way out,
01:13but let's talk.
01:15And that's exactly what he did, and it is an unforgettable memory for me to be sitting
01:19down in a small group with the successor of Peter, the 266th Pope, and to be able to talk
01:26to him and talk to a real parish priest of the world, I suppose that's how we would see it.
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