Aussie priest who carried Fisherman's Ring for Pope Francis speaks on inauguration Mass
Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney's Very Reverend Father Daniel McCaughan has spoken ahead of the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV.
Fr McCaughan was asked to carry the Fisherman's Ring when he was a deacon during the ceremony for Pope Francis in 2013.
Around a quarter of a million people are expected to pack into the St Peter's Square to witness history as the first ever US born pope officially begins his papacy.
'I had the privilege of going to Catholic ground zero, down underneath the high altar of St Peter to the tomb of St Peter, to retrieve from there the Fisherman's Ring,' Fr McCaughan told Sky News Australia.
"What you will see in the Mass is all the symbols of what it means to be the successor to St Peter, the shepherd of 1.4 billion Catholics around the world on display ... it's Catholicism writ large."
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