CBS Information surprises Pope Francis with present impressed by element in his ebook

Tens of millions of individuals journey throughout the globe annually to fulfill Pope Francis, many coming ready with customary items for the pinnacle of the Catholic Church — CBS Night Information anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell included.

As she wrapped up her current historic interview with the pope in Vatican Metropolis, O’Donnell stunned Francis with a private present from CBS Information: a vinyl of Walter Cronkite’s 1969 particular report on the moon touchdown.

The present was impressed by Francis’ ebook, “Life: My Story By Historical past,” which chronicles main historic moments the pontiff witnessed all through his life, together with a full chapter about becoming a member of the hundreds of thousands of individuals who turned on their tv units in July 1969 to look at Cronkite’s protection of the Apollo 11 moon touchdown.

Francis wrote within the ebook, “I imagine all of us understood instinctively that the world would now be completely different by some means. Progress is prime – we’ve to maintain transferring – nevertheless it should be in concord with humankind’s means to handle it.”

“Your Holiness, I learn in your ebook that while you had been rising up within the seminary that you just watched Neil Armstrong land on the moon, and it was on CBS — translated. It is a file of that second,” O’Donnell informed Francis, displaying him the vinyl cowl.

“Oh!” a smiling Francis exclaimed as he scanned the present.

O’Donnell then confirmed Francis the again of the vinyl, which featured Armstrong’s iconic quote, “One small step for man, one big leap for mankind.”

“That is very form of you. Thanks very a lot. Thanks. Pray for me. Do not forget. In favor, not in opposition to,” Francis replied as O’Donnell laughed. “Thanks very a lot.”