Pope FrancisThe funeral was scheduled for 10 am (at 4 am) on Saturday in front of the Basilica of Sant Pere, announced the Vatican on Tuesday, after a meeting of the Cardinals College of the headquarters of the Catholic Church in the heart of Rome. The coffin carried by the pope, who died on Monday morning After suffering a stroke and heart failure At the age of 88, he will be taken in a procession on Wednesday morning, accompanied by Cardinals, in the basilica since his residence at Casa Santa Marta, where he died.
The pope’s body was placed on the coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence on Monday. On Tuesday, the Vatican published the first photos and video of Francis since his death, showing it on the wooden casket that carried a red robe with the papal miter on his head and a rosary intertwined in his hands.
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The images showed the Cardinals and other Church officials who did what the Vatican said was the formal confirmation of the Pope’s death and praying on his body.
CBS News correspondent, Seth Doane, said that the Santa Marta Hotel’s intimate service gave the senior clergy and the Privileged of the Vatican a private possibility of respecting Francis. The Vatican Swiss Guards were, as always, became attention on the Pope’s side.
Church officials also shared some Details about the last hours of the PopeDescribing « a discreet, almost sudden death, without suffering or public alarm ».
The provisional administrator of the Vatican, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-American who will play an important role in funeral and later events in the coming weeks, will preside over the procession and ritual transfer of the Pope’s body to the Basilica of Saint Peter.
The pontiff will be in front of its funeral in the basilica from Wednesday morning, the Vatican said. The funeral mass will be held three days later by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re. The papal funeral is broken down into Three separate phasesor « stations ». They are the preparation of the body, the visualization of the body and then the burial.
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Who will come to the funeral of Pope Francis?
The funeral at St. Peter’s Basilica will attract « patriarchs, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests around the world, » said the Vatican. Several world leaders and other dignitar leaders will also be present.
President Trump said on Monday that he and the first Lady Melania would attend, as did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron in France. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni Outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Among the first royal ones to confirm that they will attend the funeral were King Philippe and Queen Mathilde in Belgium. The official Belgian news agency in the country confirmed that they would attend, say on Monday of the Royal Panda Social Media on Monday that they honored Francis as « a great man, near the most vulnerable and worried about the problems of the world ».
King Philip VI and Queen Letizia of Spain also planned to be at the funeral, said the French AFP news agency on Tuesday, citing the Royal Palace of Madrid.
The Kensington Palace said on Tuesday that William, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, would attend the Pope’s funeral in the name of the Royalty of the United Kingdom, representing his father King Charles III. Charles, together with Queen Camilla, met with Francis in the Vatican less than two weeks before the pontiff died.
Russia President Vladimir Putin, who is currently the subject of an international criminal court detention warranty about war the crimes allegedly committed During the current Ukraine invasion of his country, he will not attend the pope’s funeral, said the spokesman for the Kremlin Cap.
« No. The President does not have those plans, » said spokesman Dmitry Peskov to journalists when asked about Francis’ funeral. The guarantee of the CPI severely limits the ability to travel internationally, since any nation that is signing of the founding letter of the United Nations is obliged to arrest it if it enters its territory.
Reuters’ news agency said that Brazil’s president, Luis inacio da Silva, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had also confirmed that they would attend the funeral. President Javier Milei de Argentina, where Francis was born in 1936, would also be at the funeral, according to his office.
The China government stated on Tuesday that no decision had been made on which officials could attend the Vatican service.
What happens after Pope Francis’s funeral?
After the funeral mass in St. Peter’s, Pope Francis’s coffin will be brought to the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, where he will be understood. The Pope chose to be buried in the smallest basilica, which is about four kilometers away, outside the Vatican walls. He prayed to Santa Maria often, before and after international trips during his 12 -year pontificate.
Between 15 and 20 days after the Pope’s death, the Cardinal voters will meet the Vatican and will be sealed from the world behind the Sistine Chapel’s gates for the papal conclave, the centenary process of Choose the following pope. Only cardinals under the age of 80, currently a group of about 135, are eligible to vote in a conclave.
The Cardinals meeting on Tuesday was the first of which will be a series of meetings that culminate in the conclave. John Allen, publisher of the « Crux » Catholic News Web site, told CBS News that the Cardinals who were already in the Vatican to attend the Tuesday meeting would be joined by others around the world soon.
« The really important part of these meetings begins when the cardinals begin to give programmatic conversations where they believe that the church is … and what is the profile of the man to carry it, » Allen told CBS News about the process that reached the conclave.
« Let’s be clear: they are not the Caucus of Iowa. No one will stand, the storm of the storm in the name of his favorite candidate, » he said, adding that he can, « read between the lines » of the addresses delivered by the cardinals « to find out, » he probably speaks of a sound cardinal and, or, or he may be talking against Cardina, you will go to the following process. «
For the real conclave, the cardinals will throw ballots inside the Sistine Chapel, out of public view, for their choice to direct the church, repeating the process until a candidate arises with a two -thirds majority. The paper ballots are burned after each voting round, sending black smoke to indicate that no option has been achieved yet, and finally white smoke to reveal that a new pope has been selected.
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