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00:00I'm Father Paul Farne from St. Eugene's Cathedral.
00:04Father, how is the news of Pope Francis Passant had you today?
00:08I think it's very sad. It's a very sad day.
00:11The Pope was a remarkable man.
00:13He gave remarkable leadership in the world and in the Church.
00:16And he was a man who was so full of joy and so full of duty and service.
00:22And we saw that yesterday when he still managed to come and give his blessing
00:26and how he travelled around St. Peter's Square yesterday, obviously,
00:30in great discomfort to him, but focus always on others.
00:35Can you share some of your thoughts on the Pope Francis Passant?
00:39What did you think of him as?
00:41I thought he was a wonderful Pope. He was a gift from God.
00:44I think he was a man for the time that we have lived through.
00:48I think he led us in a very powerful way, both in the Church and in the world,
00:55being the moral leader of the world and the man who had the greatest freedom
00:59to analyse the situation in different parts of the world
01:03and to try to lead people and governments to peace.
01:07I think he had great freedom speaking to power.
01:10And I also think in the Church, he had a tremendous understanding
01:14and belief and confidence in the Holy Spirit
01:16and that the Holy Spirit would lead us
01:18and that we had to be open to the ways of the Spirit at all times.
01:22Yes, tonight we'll gather and pray the Rosary in a benediction,
01:32praying for the repose of his soul
01:34and then in due course, after the funeral arrangements are announced in Rome,
01:39there will be a diocesan mass here as well for the Pope.
01:43What's up?
01:43Joan Morrison.
01:44And we're founded in Derrion.
01:46Heselbeck.
01:46Heselbeck.
01:47And can you tell me, how's the news of Pope Francis Passant at either end?
01:51A very big shock because we were watching him in St Peter's Square yesterday
01:56giving the, you know, the blessing and blessing all the children and that.
02:01It was such a big shock.
02:02And what were some of your thoughts about Pope Francis General as 10 years ago?
02:07I thought he was very humble.
02:09Very humble priest.
02:11Very good, you know, when he was a priest.
02:13And very humble as a Pope, you know, and very good to poor.
02:19That was my thought.
02:21There was no pomp and glory about him.
02:24You know, he was just like an ordinary man.
02:27And that's the way I think he wanted people to perceive him.
02:31Patrick McGill.
02:32Where are we from, right?
02:33A local man, derry man.
02:35Where are we today?
02:36Living over in Victoria Gatewater's site.
02:39And that how's the news of Pope Francis Passant at the end of it?
02:42Very sad.
02:44Somebody who was a leader for all communities at all levels.
02:48Very humble man.
02:50I think we all could relate to his humility and how he did things so simple.
02:55And what were your thoughts on Pope Francis Pass?
03:01I thought he was somebody who anybody could have been him.
03:08I thought he was a very kind of holy, happy man.
03:11Happy to send a message and spread the message and show people what it's like to be a leader.
03:18To have the compassion for forgiveness for us, as to what he did.
03:25Anna Peake.
03:27Everybody knows me in derry, I think.
03:29And where are you from around derry?
03:31I'm not.
03:32Are you a Dubliner?
03:32I'm a Dubliner.
03:33Oh, you're a Dubliner?
03:34Yeah.
03:34But a shame to it.
03:36Do you live in derry?
03:37Oh yeah, 20 odd years.
03:39Where do you live in derry?
03:40Up the mountain.
03:41Up the mountain?
03:42Yeah, I don't like city life.
03:44I never did.
03:45How has the news of Pope Francis Pass?
03:48Shock.
03:49I was in the chapel.
03:51I put my phone on, charge, and I thought, oh, I'll just see what the news is like as such,
03:57or see what's going on.
03:59And an advert come on, and I switched that, and I saw a photo of the Pope, and I thought,
04:03I'll see how he's getting on.
04:04And it was him giving the blessing on the balcony, and I thought, oh, that's wonderful.
04:10And he looked quite well.
04:12Then he come down in the Popmerville, and started blessing babies and passing them rosary beads
04:21and everything.
04:22And I was full of joy, and I come back, I come down to Mass then, about 10 minutes later,
04:27and blow me, I walk into the chapel, and really joy, and even Father Paul must, I thought
04:33I was weird.
04:35But he said, have you heard the news?
04:38And I said, about the Pope?
04:40And I said, no.
04:41And he said, he's passed away, Anna.
04:43And then walked off, because he'd just left his prayer.
04:46He'd been in praying.
04:47And I was shocked, really, really shocked, because, I mean, of all the times he could
04:54have died, he didn't.
04:55But then none of us know the hour or the minute we're going to go, so we just thank God for
05:01every chance we get.
05:02And there were some of you after the Pope, who was a strange name, Pope?
05:06He was a very powerful Pope in what he believed.
05:11And if that's their order, how they believe.
05:14But the one thing I would say to him, he was very, very much in tune for mercy, and truth,
05:21and understanding.
05:23And that, and then to make this year the year of hope, he got his wish, because he hoped that
05:30he would go.
05:31But we didn't get his wish.
05:34Well, we didn't want that wish, really.
05:37But he's in heaven now, and we just pray for the peace of his soul now, and that he'd be
05:43praying for us all.
05:43I'm going to ask you to introduce yourself, please.
05:46Philip Wilson is my name.
05:48And where are you from there?
05:49I'm from the parish.
05:50Where are you from around there?
05:52Beachwood.
05:52Beachwood, lovely.
05:53And can you tell me, how is the news of Pope Francis' passing on Tuesday?
05:58It's very tragic, very sad.
06:00But it was obvious to see yesterday, with Irby at Irby.
06:05He was very ill.
06:06And what was your thoughts on Pope Francis Truman's time as Pope?
06:15He highlighted the poor.
06:21He always stood with the poor.
06:22Does that mean a lot to you?
06:24No.
06:25It wasn't tied up with the bureaucracy, or the sort of, you know, the trappings of office.
06:35That was the poor.
06:37Introduce yourself, please.
06:38Oh, yeah.
06:38John Fury is my name.
06:40I live up the street, down too far from here.
06:42Happy days.
06:42And, John, can you tell me, how is the news of Pope Francis' passing on Tuesday?
06:47Well, we can't expect it.
06:48We knew his health was quite poor, but it was totally amazing to see him out yesterday,
06:52and the big thing, I thought that was amazing, that he was there to celebrate his Easter,
06:57his last Easter, just the day before he died.
06:58It was a totally amazing thing, like a saintly thing.
07:03And what did you think of Pope Francis during his time as a Pope?
07:06No, very good.
07:06A very modern Pope, you know, and he'd done lots of wee things.
07:09He was trying to make wee changes, you know, to modernise the faith a wee bit,
07:12I mean, help people to make it sort of more interesting and more acceptable.