GB News star Andrew Pierce has spoken about the “spiritually uplifting” scenes from the Vatican City.White smoke has risen from the Sistine Chapel, indicating a successful election and a new pope.Speaking to Martin Daubney on GB News, he said: “It’s just huge. He’s the vicar of Christ. He is our papa. Our Holy Father.“Pope Francis’s departure couldn’t have been better choreographed - I wasn’t sad at all. I thought it was wonderful.“He died on Easter Monday when Churches were all adorned with flowers. He did his Easter Blessing the day before which probably put a huge strain on his body and possibly triggered his death.“I thought it was a wonderful departure for him. I found it really spiritually uplifting and I went to a wonderful service at Westminster Cathedral on the same day.”
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00:00Talk us through the significance, the emotions that are being felt now by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
00:07Oh, it's just huge. It's because he's the Vicar of Christ. That's one of his many titles.
00:13He's our Papa. He's our Holy Father.
00:16And I thought that Pope Francis's departure, his death, couldn't have been better choreographed.
00:24I wasn't sad at all. I thought it was wonderful.
00:26He died at Easter. He died on Easter Monday when the churches were still adorned with flowers, which were all to do with the resurrection.
00:33He'd done his Easter blessing the day before, which was probably put such a huge strain on his body.
00:39It probably did trigger his possibly triggered his death the next day.
00:43So I thought that was a wonderful departure for him and for the Catholic Church.
00:48And it was I found it really spiritually uplifting.
00:50And I went to a wonderful service at Westminster Cathedral on the same day.
00:54And Cardinal Vince Nicholls presided over that service.
00:58And of course, he is in the Sistine Chapel, along with two other British cardinals.
01:02I don't think we've ever had three British cardinals in the conclave before.
01:07And they have chosen our Holy Father.
01:09It is it's like our monarch.
01:11And that we they are an important spiritual leader.
01:15I think the pope is the most important spiritual leader on the planet.
01:20As I say, he is the vicar of Christ.
01:22He's God's representative on Earth.
01:24He is a direct successor to St. Peter, who was the first pope.
01:28That's why it is not just hugely symbolic.
01:31It's absolutely enriched with tradition and history.
01:35And whoever that pope is, it's a huge, huge burden.
01:39And largely in my lifetime, they've done it pretty, pretty well.
01:44All sorts of challenges.
01:45And I also like the fact, Martin, that our pope has been chosen on victory in Europe Day.
01:50Vatican City, of course, was neutral during the Second World War.
01:53There was some criticism that the pope at the time was too close to the Nazis.
01:56But subsequently in history, it's just we now discover that, in fact, the pope was helping,
02:02helping get people out of the Vatican, out of Italy, doing his bit quietly behind the scenes.
02:09So I think that's quite significant because, of course, Italy had its own very checkered role in the Second World War.
02:15And it means we're never going to forget the day the new pope, the 267th pope, was elected
02:21because it was the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe Day.
02:23What a symbolic day, Martin.