Quotes
We feel very small. We have to make decisions for the whole Church, so we really need to pray for ourselves,
added Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Hollerich, a Jesuit who was a close advisor to Francis It’s not about the man the world wants. It’s about the man God calls.”
Habemus Papam” ... We have a pope.”
The senior cardinal deacon announces the new pope from the balcony Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?”
I hope nobody goes into this conclave, as it were, with the sole purpose of wanting to win. I think it's very important that we go in wanting to listen to each other... It has to be together, trying to sense what God wants next. Not just for the church."
Cardinal Nichols told Anna Botting I think it would be great to be blessed with another person with the capacity to capture the public imagination and to be a voice for sanity, for peace and for justice in a world that has need for such a voice,
said Bishop Paul Tighe, one of the most senior Irishmen in the Roman Curia There’s no reason why somebody from a very humble church background wouldn’t rise to the top and that’s what we’ve seen with Kevin and his brother – it’s wonderful,
says Whelan, referring to the cardinal’s older sibling, Bishop Brian Farrell (81). That’s everybody – from the public to those of us who knew him, worked with him and saw him up close. People talk about simplicity. My favourite word would be authenticity. What you saw was what you got,
He certainly was not a man who was made for retirement and I think he decided to spend himself, what energy he had, to try and continue his mission,
His best quality was that he could put anyone at ease with a quip and a tease and he always had a smile on his face, he had a sense of fun and will be very sadly missed.
When asked what sort of person Pope Francis was, Cardinal Nichols, said Photographs I can understand but selfies are a bit ghoulish
When asked what he thought of mourners taking pictures of the Pope’s body, Cardinal Nichols, said When I was in Casa Marta, where the Pope’s body, I thought here was a man who came here 20 years ago with a small suitcase and has never been home since.
It’s my first one so I don’t really know how it all works
Liverpool supporter Cardinal Nichols, who was made a Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2014, described how he was looking forward to the election process, and joked It was just a moment of being present and appreciating the rapport that we had for each other.
There is a part of me that wishes I was there and the last time I was there was for Jurgen Klopp’s last game at the end of last season, so it’s been a while but if we win and we will, it will be magnificent
Enter the conclave as Pope and leave as a cardinal.”
Favourites entering the conclave rarely emerge as Pope, which has spawned the Italian adage The Islam in my country is a fraternal, peaceful religion.”
We will need more participation of women in the formation of priests, in teaching, in the discernment of candidates and their emotional balance.”
Everyone can contribute to peace, but solutions must never be pursued through unilateral impositions that risk trampling on the rights of entire peoples, otherwise there will never be a just and lasting peace.”
The harsh words that were used in the past to refer to gays and divorced and separated people, the unwed mothers [and so on], in the past they were quite severe. Many people who belonged to those groups were branded and that led to their isolation from the wider society.”
