Those who call Rome, home...

“To the Vatican, as fast as you can!”

Collage of Cardinals - while one may seem to simply merge into another, when they’re in what’s colloquially termed a 'collective’ you can’t miss them (you will when in the “Conclave”)  - something about the grand design seen elsewhere as a color-less Crayola collection, vestments in “blood red” (symbolizing their expressed willingness to lay down their lives…) 

In the coming haze- what’s termed elsewhere even on this Earth Day as a “controlled burn” will soon have a mass of humanity in the confines of St. Peter Square lifting their eyes to the sky, to see what hue it gives off…to see which Cardinal is called to leave the nest…

"A Saint I ain't" Despite his own protestations to the contrary, in the form of asking almost immediately to be lifted in prayer…signaling, essentially and symbolically “I’m just one of you…” which the world came to embrace, what he brought to the world stage in the rare form of humility, it is likely that Pope Francis will come to be venerated as a saint. Big shoes to fill, in deeds. 

May God welcome You to your heavenly home, Jorge.