ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO HAVANA (CNS) -- Making his 12th trip abroad, Pope Francis was accustomed to collecting interview requests, notes and gifts from the journalists who travel on the plane with him.
But his flight to Cuba Feb. 12 had a unique moment. Noel Diaz, who lives in Los Angeles and was covering the trip for ESNE -- a Catholic radio and television network -- asked the pope if he could shine his shoes "in memory of all those people who struggle daily to put bread on their tables."
Diaz told the pope that when he was growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, his mother told him he would have to delay his first Communion because she could not afford to buy him black pants and a white shirt. Although not quite 8 years old, Diaz said he went out with a shoe-shine box to earn the money for the clothes and was able to receive his first Communion with his peers.
The pope reluctantly conceded to Diaz, and the man knelt in the aisle of the plane and brushed the pope's shoe. Then he gave the pope a shoe-shine kit.
www.catholicnews.com/…/cookies-sombrer…

(RV).- Laico, inmigrante de origen mexicano, fundador del Apostolado El Sembrador, y de ESNE Radio, (por sus siglas, El Sembrador Nueva Evangelización), Emisora que nace el 31 de julio del 2002 con la canonización de San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, en la Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en México, y cuya programación llega a unos 15 países incluyendo España.
es.radiovaticana.va/…/1207996