CNN news 2013-07-12 加文本

cnn news 2013-07-12

Couple weeks ago, there was a particularly tragicevents and water out a series where ten died. They were caught in a fisherman'snet and the fisherman cut the net let them go, ten people died. 

Pope Francis says that particularly moment,particularly touched him, that story, he wanted to make his first visit, atLampedusa, to sort of memorize, all the many people who have died. By someestimates 25,000 people have lost their lives in the last 15 years also, makingtheir way from North Africa to Lampedusa. As he approached the port of theLampedusa, he made a reef of flowers in the water and said a prayer for thepeople who have died. And then he gave a mass on 15,000 people wearing purplevestments which are normally reserved for him appears in the morning. And hestood as a very emotion behind an ultimate, the remnant, of some of thesemigrant ships that crashed on the shores of this rocky island of Sicily.

I think this really does underscore that heis a pope that peoples hope in many way. He wanted to shun the pageantry that normallygoes with papal visit. He didn’t want any politician to accompany him on thispapal trip. He didn’t want even some of the cardinals from Rome to come withhim. He wanted to meet the people of Lampedusa and thank them for their, foropening their hearts and their homes to these migrants and refugees that come.And he also wanted to do it in the most simple way possible which we have seentime and time again of this pope since he taken office in March earlier thisyear.