Marcelo highlights Pope Francis' “unique trait” that makes it “very difficult” to choose a successor

The President of the Republic said today, upon arriving in Rome, that Pope Francis “left a unique mark that will last a long time” and considered that this “makes choosing a successor very difficult”. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was speaking to RTP at around 7pm local time (one hour behind in Lisbon), in Rome, where he will be present at the funeral ceremonies for Pope Francis, who died on Monday, aged 88. The Portuguese head of state stated that th…

President of the Republic says that Francis' death is a “great, great loss at the national level” for the Pope's relations with Portugal

The Portuguese President, who is in Rome to attend Francisco's funeral ceremonies, speaks of a “great loss”. He also states that it is impossible to say whether the next pope could be Portuguese.