Faith has no home

Francis’s ultimate farewell comes with white smoke. The chimney as a protagonist. And millions of loyal eyes on the conduct purposely installed over the sistine chapel.

Faith has no home, but the Vatican is these days the only destination.
12 years ago Francisco was the elected and only needed a sentence to reach everyone. Its pontificate was marked precisely by the ability to reach each of the people, comprising the human frame the equivalent of a class or a Tagus park.
It was also distinguished by reaching people, regardless of being Catholic, agnostic or atheists.

By the time these lines are required to be written, the first result of the conclave is yet to reveal. But the chimney is already the main focus of believers, who await the name of Francisco’s successor.
A moment when the Church renews itself, and faith feeds on proximity and unity. Just like Jorge Mario Bergoglio would certainly want.
It was also this proximity that it moved so many of the long of this more than a decade.

Generosity with the most vulnerable, attention to children, the lap for all, essentially for those who doubted.
Humor at the right times.
The ease in deconstructing common and common problems.
A holy priest so human that, when insistently clinging on one of the occasions when he blessed the faithful, he also showed that losing patience is part.

While the cardinals choose at the closed door the 267th Pope, Francis’ name remains prominent in most of the faithful who desires the continuity of the work.
These lines are over without confirmations.
But in a time of globalization and often meaningless, there is almost always hope and faith, whether here or at the end of the world.