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00:00But people have been reflecting on his life this week, and there's been some really great stories.
00:05I've seen some fabulous ones.
00:08He was a pope for change in so many different communities, and he was a bouncer.
00:14He was. He was not just about sermons, though.
00:16This and the ceremonies that went along with it as well, and as I said, a very much break from tradition with this pope.
00:21He was really known for walking the walk, and I mean that quite literally.
00:24This was a man who went and hugged lepers.
00:27He was a man who spoke out for the marginalised, or what he felt were marginalised in society.
00:31He washed the feet of prisoners, and that was a papal tradition which had started quite a number of popes ago, of papacies ago.
00:38However, he expressed his deep regret that he was unable to do that this Good Friday, just gone past, because he was in such poor health at the time.
00:47So he really was a man of the people, and that stemmed back from his very, very humble upbringings.
00:54Because before the cassock was adorned, Pope Francis was in fact a goalkeeper, which I think is just tremendous.
01:00It gives him a level of humanity that really puts him on par with normal people.
01:05Thank you so much.
01:13Thank you very much.