Vatican City : Pope Francis confessed on Thursday that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his casket and wears it to this day in a fabric pouch under his cassock. He said he did so telling the late priest, “Give me half your mercy.”
Pope Francis made the revelation during an informal chat with priests. He told the story of the “great confessor” of Buenos Aires who had heard confessions from most of the diocesan priests as well as from Pope John Paul II when he visited Argentina.
When the priest died, the Pope went to pray by his open casket and saw the rosary the priest still held in his hand. “And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves,” the Pope said and revealed that he had taken the rosary.
