Pope Francis was laid to rest Saturday.
He was the first pope to come from the Society of Jesus, or Jesuit order to lead the church in its 2,000 year history.
Fellow Jesuit, Father Joseph Brown, a professor and coordinator of SIU-Carbondale’s Africana Studies Program and director of the School of Africana & Multicultural Studies, said on the 21st show Monday, Pope Francis' Jesuit background shown through in his papacy.
"Each member of the Society of Jesus is supposed to try to find what they can do, in the vineyard of Christ, which has the greater need and to go places where others are not going. It's a priority to go where others are not going. When you stop and think about the pope (Francis) going to, I think it was 47 different countries, and many of them no pope had ever been at before."
The conclave to select a new pope will begin soon. Father Brown said the next pope and his advisors will have to consider the crisis of immigration.
"They will have to be considering how God created us all to be family. Therefore, there is no hierarchy of personhood, and the pope and his companions in governance are going to have to be dealing with the political resistance to taking care of the climate and the future of the planet."
The Vatican News reports the Cardinals present in Rome have agreed to begin the conclave to elect the 267th Pope on May 7th.
