“We feel a bit like orphans, orphans of a father who deeply loved his country and who had to learn how to be a father to the world”, said Mgr Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, at a press conference convened to remember Pope Francis. “Perhaps his greatest legacy is for us to recognise him as a father of mercy and joy”, he added, recalling the Evangelii Gaudium and the 2015 Jubilee: “God is a good Father, who loves us and does not tire of forgiving us. This mercy is what we must learn to live among ourselves”. The prelate recalled Francis’ prophetic voice “for the poor, the migrant, the elderly, the sick. Until the very end, he denounced wars and the fact that the Mediterranean was turned into ‘the world’s graveyard’”. Responding to journalists, he revealed: “We wrote to each other at the beginning of the year. He told me about the archdiocese and the desire to see each other again”. Finally, an invitation to carry forward his mission: “Now it is up to us to be a bit like Francis, to live his magisterium, to build fraternity, to become artisans of peace and hope. We may not have fully grasped it yet, but we are still in time”.