As the world grapples with conflict, migration, and moral uncertainty, Pope Francis emerged as a spiritual compass, championing mercy, justice, and interfaith dialogue. Sara Silvestri reflects on his legacy of compassion, his bold stance on global issues, and the enduring power of love at the heart of his papacy

A personal memory
I met Pope Francis in 2016. It was part of a symposium of the former Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People (now recast by Francis as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development) on the challenges surrounding the pastoral care of international students at university. Attention to migrants and refugees became a landmark theme of his pontificate, more prominently than for his predecessor, whom I had also met a few years earlier through the same Pontifical Council and my research on migrant women.

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