“It is with profound sadness that I learnt this morning of the death of His Holiness, Pope Francis. He was an ever faithful servant in the vineyard of the Lord.
In word and deed, he pointed to a loving and merciful God who reaches out to embrace all people. He had a big heart for the poor, the migrant, the marginalised.
He dreamed of a Church as the people of God working together to make this often darkened world of ours a better place.
I pray that he now enjoys the presence of God himself whom he loved with all his heart and served so faithfully in this life. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam”.
Bishop Michael Duignan