The late Pope Francis’ legacy lies with taking the teachings of the church and giving them a “compassionate and inviting face” while reaching out to marginal groups that had been feeling excluded, Monsignor Jim Lisante, the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Massapequa Park, New York, told Newsmax Sunday.
“He said, ‘This church is here for everyone, of every background, of every culture, of every personal choice that they may make’ [and was] reaching out to people who otherwise had been excluded, or at least they felt excluded,” Lisante said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” while discussing the funeral.
“The Pope basically put out the welcome mat to everybody, and even the choices of his trips that he made, or the cardinals that he named, were from places that never had a cardinal before,” he added. “There’s a cardinal now in Mongolia, which only has about 2000 Catholics. But he wanted to say to the Eastern churches, You are welcome here. You are part of the family.”
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