"He was a very positive and fair person. And he always wanted peace, world wide peace, and he loved everybody and accepted everybody and so I want to be more like that," said Carla Medina Zambrano.

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as “intrinsically disordered.