We Welcome Pope Leo XIV.

Farewell Pope Francis. You were not always popular with the doctors of dogma but the people loved you That is a good pedigree. Lying in state you chose a pair of scuffed workaday shoes, not for you the ruby slippers. A simple working priest who loved god and loved humanity.

Pope Leo XIV starts by declaring that God loves everybody and we should go forward as one people. Amen to that.