Immigrants, a shipwreck and fatalities: the family episode that almost prevented Francis from being Pope

Six days ago since the Catholic world was in mourning. At 07:35 hours last Monday Pope Francis died in his official residence of Santa Marta, as a result of a stroke, a coma and an irreversible cardiovascular collapse, together with the problems resulting from pneumonia that kept him hospitalized for weeks at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.After his death, he began the process of choosing the new successor of Saint Peter, while at the same time th…