Pope Francis‘The funeral has been scheduled for the 10 am local time (4 am Eastern) on Saturday in the Basilica of San Pedro, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, after a meeting of the Faculty of Cardinals at the headquarters of the City-State of the Catholic Church in the heart of Rome. The coffin leading to the Pope, which Died Monday morning After suffering a stroke and heart failure at the age of 88, he will be taken to a procession on Wednesday morning, accompanied by Cardinals, to the Basilica since his residence at Casa Santa Marta, where he died.
The Pope’s body was buried Monday in a coffee in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.
The Vatican launched the first photos and videos on Francis’s Tuesday in his coffin, wearing a red robbery 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 acted what the Vatican said was the formal confirmation of the death of the Pope and praying for his body.
The CBS News correspondent, Seth Doane, said that the intimate service at the Santa Marta hotel gave the senior clergy and the Vatican experts a private opportunity to respect Francis. The Swiss guards of Vatican with ornamally dresses were, as always, standing next to the Pope.
The interim administrator of the Vatican, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-American who will play an important role in the funeral and the subfreins events in the next week, will preside over the procession and ritual transfer of the Pope’s body to the basilica of St. Peter.
The pontiff will be in the state before his funeral in the basilica starting Wednesday morning, said the Vatican. The funeral mass will be celebrated three days later by the dean of the Faculty of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re. The papal funeral is divided into Three separate phasesor “stations”. They are the preparation of the body, the visualization of the body and then the burial.
Who will come to Pope Francis’s funeral?
The funeral in the Basilica of San Pedro on Saturday will attract “Patrecas, Cardinals, Archbishops, bishops and priests from all over the government,” said the Vatican. It will also attend several world leaders and other dignitaries.
The Pope’s coffin will take through the so -called 500 -year -old basilica “for death” to the left of the main altar, and a single bell will hit him.
President Trump said Monday that he and the first lady Melania would attend, like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky and Emmanuel Macron de France.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who is currently the subject of an international criminal court Judgment order About war Crimes supposedly committed Duration The continuous invasion of Ukraine in his country will not attend the Pope’s funeral, the main spokesman of the Kremlin said Tuesday.
“No. The president has no such plans,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov to journalists when asked about Francis’s funeral. “The ICC justifies Putin’s ability to travel international, since any signatory nation of the founding letter of the UN Court is legally joins to judge it if it is territory.
The Reuters news agency said the president of Brazil, Luis Inacio Da Silva, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The Chinese government indicated on Tuesday that no decisions had been made about which officials could attend the service in the Vatican.
What happens after Pope Francis’s funeral?
After the funeral mass in St. Peter’s, Pope Francis’s coffin will be taken to the Basilica or Santa Maria in Rome, where he will be buried. The Pope chose to be buried in the smallest basilica, which is about four miles away, surpassed the walls of the Vatican. He prayed in St. Mary’s often, before and after the duration of international trips, his 12 -year pontificate.
Between 15 and 20 days after the death of the Pope, the cardinal voters will meet in the Vatican and will be sealed from the world behind the doors of the Sistine chapel for the papal conclave, the centenary process of choosing the next Pope. Only cardinals under 80 years of age, currently a group of approximately 135, are eligible to vote in a conclave.
The Cardinals meeting on Tuesday was the first in what will be a series of meetings that will culminate with the conclave. John Allen, editor of the Catholic News Website “Crux”, told CBS News that the cardinals who were already in the Vatican to attend Tuesday’s meeting soon joined others around the world.
“The important part of these meetings begins when the cardinals begin to give programmatic conversations about where they believe the church is … and what is the profile of the man to carry it forward,” Allen told CBS News about the process prior to the conclave.
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For the royal conclave, the cardinals will throw ballots inside the Sistine Chapel, out of view of the public, so that their choice to lead the church, repeating the process until A candidate Emerges with a two more third majority. The paper tickets are burned after each voting round, sending black smoke to indicate that the option has not yet been reached, and finally the white smoke to reveal that a new Pope has been selected.
