Andreas English, journalist and writer, usually met and accompanied Pope Francis. He lives in Rome and wrote quite a few books concerning the Vatican and numerous popes. In a final, private letter to Francis, he mentioned goodbye right here.

Of course I can bear in mind it once I noticed you, Jorge Mario Bergoglio for the primary time. I used to be within the wake of Pope Benedict XVI in May 2007. got here to Aparecida in Brazil, and there was the unhappy bishop of Buenos Aires, who was thought of the nice opponent of the crew round Joseph Ratzinger throughout this go to to the Pope. The members of your Latin American Bishops’ convention Celam didn’t wish to be patronized by the rulers from the Vatican. The try and impose them on what they need to do of their homeland in Latin America outraged them and above all certainly one of them.