Despite his critical state of health, Francis had a staunch desire: to remain Pope to the end. He refused to give up his duties, even if he had been weakened. His doctor testified with admiration: “He wanted to go home to be Pope until the last moment… He didn’t let us down. ”
This courage, this fidelity to his mission and this last gesture failed testify to the depth of the man behind the religious figure. Until the end, Pope Francis will have embodied a Church turned to the human, the forgotten, the invisible.
A lesson in humility and humanity
This last regret, far from being anecdotal, reminds us that even the most emblematic figures of our time bear in them simple desires, of the impulses of the heart. In a world that often values power and speech, Pope Francis bequeaths us, as a farewell, to a silent but powerful lesson: greatness can also be revealed in a missed gesture.