Pope FrancisThe funeral for 10 am on Saturday at St. Peter Basilica on Saturday (4 pm Eastern), the Vatican announced on Tuesday that after a meeting of the Cardinals College at the city-state headquarters of the Catholic Church at the center of Rome. Pope carrying coffin, which Died on Monday morning After a stroke and heart failure at the age of 88, on Wednesday morning a procession will be brought, with cardinals, Casa Santa from her residence in Marta in Basilica, where she died.
The Pope’s body was placed on Monday in a coffin in the chapel of Santa Marta Niwas.
The Vatican released the first photos and videos of Francis in his coffin on Tuesday, wearing a red rebellion with the pope on his head and a rosar in his hands was interconnected.
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The images showed cardinals and other church officials that what the Vatican said was a formal confirmation of the Pope’s death and praying on his body.
CBS News correspondent Seth Doni said that the intimate service at Santa Marta Hotel gave senior pastor and inner Vatican sources a personal opportunity to Francis to pay their honors. The ornately Swiss guards of the Vatican were in meditation from the Pope’s side, as usual.
The Vatican’s interim administrator, Cardinal Kevin Fareel, an Irish-American, who will play a major role in funeral and later events in the coming weeks, will preside over the procession and the ritual transfer of the ritual of the Pope’s body of the Pope.
The Vatican said that Pontiff would lie in the kingdom before his funeral in Basilica from Wednesday morning. The funeral month will be celebrated three days later by the Dean of the Cardinals College, Giovanni Battista Re. Pope is broken in funeral Three different stagesOr “station.” They are body preparations, to see the body and then buried.
Who will come to the funeral of Pope Francis?
Vatican said the last rites in St. Peter Basilica on Saturday “would attract patriarchs, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests from all over the world.” It will also be attended by many world leaders and other dignitaries.
The pope’s coffin will be taken to the left of the main altar via the so -called “death doors” of the 500 -year -old basilica, and a single bell will toll.
President Trump said on Monday that he and the first woman Melania would participate, as Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski and France’s Emanuel Macron.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is currently the subject of an international criminal court arrest warrant Above war Crime allegedly committed crime The Kremlin’s chief spokesperson said on Tuesday that during the ongoing attack on Ukraine of his country, he would not attend the funeral of the Pope.
“No. The President has no such plan,” spokesperson Dimitri Peskov told reporters when asked about Francis’ funeral. The ICC warrant seriously limits Putin’s ability to travel internationally, as the United Nations is a signator for the court’s charter, if he is legally bound to arrest him when he enters his area.
The Reuters News Agency said that Brazilian Chairman Luis Inceno Dr. Silva and European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen had also confirmed that they would attend the funeral with Germany. Outgoing Chancellor Olaf scollas.
The Chinese government on Tuesday indicated that no decision was taken about the officials participating in the service in the Vatican.
What happens after the funeral of Pope Francis?
After the funeral mass in St. Peter, the Coffin of Pope Francis will be taken to the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, where she will be complicated. The Pope opted to bury the small basilica, which is about four miles outside the walls of the Vatican. He prayed to St. Mary’s frequently before and after international visits during his 12 -year ponted.
Between 15 and 20 days after the Pope’s death, the cardinal directors will gather in the Vatican and sealed themselves from the world behind the doors of Sistin Chapel for the Pope Conclave, the centuries -old process of choosing the next pope. Cardinals under the age of only 80 – currently a group of about 135 – are eligible to vote in a closing.
The Cardinals’ meeting was the first time on Tuesday which would be a series of concluding with the conclusion. John Alan, editor of the Catholic News website “Crux”, told CBS News that cardinals will soon be included in the Vatican to attend the Vatican to attend the Tuesday meeting by others around the world.
Allen told CBS News to CBS News to CBS News, “The actually important part of these meetings begins when the cardinals began to give programtic talks, where they believe that the church is standing … and what is the man’s profile need to take it forward.”
“Let’s clarify: These are not Iowa Caucas. No one is going to stand, barnstorming on his favorite candidate,” he said, saying that anyone can do, “read between the addresses given by the cardinals”, we read between the cards “, we are talking about the cardinal, therefore, hence the cardinal, therefore, that can be the cardinal, so he can be the cardinal, so he can be the cardinal, so he can be the cardinal. The next pope is going into the process of choosing. ,
For the actual conclave, the Cardinals will lead the church, out of the public view, to put the ballot inside the chapel, out of the public view, until repeating this process. a candidate Two-thirds-plus-one emerges with a majority. Paper ballots are burnt after each round of voting, sending black smoke to signal, no alternative has yet reached, and finally white smoke to tell that a new pope has been chosen.
