- More than 400,000 participate in Francis’ funeral, showing his global popularity.
- Cardinals are expected to announce the conclave date after the condolence ends.
- The debate on the next Pope’s direction continues between concerns and hope.
To rest with Pope Francis, all eyes now turn to the conclave, a secret meeting of cardinals to call a new head of the Catholic Church within days to choose.
Along with world leaders and politicians, an estimated 400,000 people set out for the funeral of Argentina Pontif in Vatican in Vatican on Saturday and Argentina Pontif.
The crowd was a will for Francis’s popularity, a energetic reformer who made the poorest and weakest people champion.
Many of those who mourned the heavenly Pope, who died on Monday at the age of 88, expressed concern that who would succeed them.
“She turned the church into some more normal, more humans,” said 48 -year -old Romina Cassiator, an Argentina -based translator living in Italy.
“I’m worried about what is coming.”
On Monday morning, 9:00 am (0700 GMT), Cardinals will hold their fifth general meeting since the death of the Pope, on which they are expected to announce a date for the conclave.
The choice of a pope has been a matter of public attraction for centuries, behind the doors closed in the Fresco Sisin Chapel.
Cardinal-Electric will cast four votes a day until a candidate gets a two-thirds majority, a result that broadcasts the waiting world by burning white smoke-emitted papers.
Luxembourg Cardinal gene-cloud Holerich said that last week he hoped that the conclave would be nine-day Pope mourning on May 5 or 6, which ends on 4 May.
German Cardinal Rainhard Marx told reporters on Saturday that the conclave would last for “a few days”.
Left your mark
Francis’s funeral was held at St. Peter Square in Bright Spring Sunshine, a mixture of serious function and an outporing of emotions for the first Latin American Pope of the church.
Today (Sunday) is expected to be more crowded when the public can start visiting her simple marble mausoleum in the Basilica of her favorite church Santa Maria Magior in Rome.
Francis was buried in an alkov of the church, which became the first pope in more than a century outside the Vatican.
At the funeral, in his home, Cardinal Geoani Batista re -highlighted the protecting the migrants of Jesuit, tirelessly called for peace and faith that the church was “home to all”.
Many condolences hoped that the next Pope would follow their example during the widespread global struggle and growing right -wing localism.
74 -year -old Evelyn Wilalta of Guatemala said, “We are worried; Hopefully the Pope will take the foundation left by the Pope Francis.”
“He was a Pope that left his mark on our generation,” said 21 -year -old French student Marine de Parasvox, who joined the month.
Marx said that the debate on the next Pope was open, saying: “It is not a question of being conservative or progressive … The new Pope should have a universal vision.”
Pray for yourself
Out of 252 cardinals of the church, more than 220 were at Saturday’s funeral, and this afternoon Santa Maria will gather again in Magior to pay his honor in Francis’ tomb.
The Basilica of St. Peter will also have a mass at 10:30 am (0830 GMT), led by Pietro Parolin, who was the Secretary of State under Francis and a front-colon to become the next Pope.
The cardinals under the age of only 80 are eligible to vote in the conclave, 135 are currently eligible – most of which Francis appointed himself.
But experts assuming that they would choose someone like him.
Francis, a former archbishop of Buenos Aires who loved among his flock, was a very different character for his predecessor Benedict XVI, better for books than kissing a German psychosis.
In turn, Benedict was a marked change from its Polish preceding, charismatic, athletic and extremely popular John Paul II.
Francis’ changes triggers anger among many conservative Catholics, and many of them are hoping that the next Pope changed the focus back to the principle.
Some cardinals have accepted the weight of responsibility that faces them in choosing a new head of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world.
“We feel very young,” Holerich said last week. “We have to make decisions for the entire church, so we really need to pray for ourselves.”
