« In the morning at 7.35, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned home to his father »
Pope Franciswhich yesterday, on the biggest Christian holiday, in the traditional Urbi Et Orbi (city and the world), called for the freedom of religion and respect for the views of others, since it is not possible without it, it died, the Vatican said.
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Francis died at the age of 89. « At 7.35 in the morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned home to his father, » said Cardinal Kevin Farrell In a statement that the Vatican published on its Telegram channel.
Pope Francis, who has already written in history with too many moves that changed the habits and rituals of Roman Catholic Center, also provided new rules of papal funerals last year. How will he be buried? From a different approach to a papal function, which is no longer a royal, but a shepherd, a priesthood, the entire Bergogliev plan for his funeral, as he published it last year, also comes out. The baptism will be different, the rite will be different, and the grave will be elsewhere, as they were used to in the Vatican at the time of the last 91 popes buried in St. Peter’s basilica.
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The funeral of Pope Francis will be in nine days, the end of the election of his successor within one month, the Vatican said.