ERNIE SUGGS | THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/TNS
Apr 22, 2025
Bernice A. King has never been one for protocol, especially when she has good intentions.
So, when she found herself in the Vatican on March 12, 2018, in a private, quiet moment with Pope Francis, the daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. asked him a question.
“I leaned in to ask him was there anything I could do for him,” Bernice King recalled.
The pontiff looked at her and whispered, “Pray for me.”
Continuing to break protocol, she asked if she could pray at that moment.
“Imagine that, a Protestant female minister asking to pray for the highest spiritual leader in the Catholic Church,” King recalled. Read more at www.flcourier.com.
