Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church had remembered that it’s there to serve the poor. ___________________________________________________________________________________________.The Pope told hundreds of journalists why he’d chosen to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi.“During the election I was sitting next to the Emeritus Archbishop of Sao Paolo Cardinal Claudio Hummes. And when things were becoming dangerous, he was comforting me. And when the number of votes reached 2/3 he hugged me and kissed me and said ‘don’t forget the poor.’ And that word just stuck with me. The poor, the poor, I immediately thought of Francis of Assisi.”
