Pope Francis’s body to be moved to St Peter’s Basilica to lie in state – live
Francis will lie in state for three days to allow Catholic faithful to pay their final respectsAusten Ivereigh, biographer of Pope Francis, has been speaking to BBC News in the last few minutes noting that “what’s remarkable about what’s happening in these days is that we have the funeral of the pope in Easter Week.”“This is incredibly unusual. I don’t know whether it’s ever happened before, because Easter week is all about celebrating the resurrection, and it’s also about the birth in the readings of the church … so there’s something actually very, very powerful and very fitting about burying, grieving, saying goodbye to the pope in this week,” he said. Continue reading...
Francis will lie in state for three days to allow Catholic faithful to pay their final respects
Austen Ivereigh, biographer of Pope Francis, has been speaking to BBC News in the last few minutes noting that “what’s remarkable about what’s happening in these days is that we have the funeral of the pope in Easter Week.”
“This is incredibly unusual. I don’t know whether it’s ever happened before, because Easter week is all about celebrating the resurrection, and it’s also about the birth in the readings of the church … so there’s something actually very, very powerful and very fitting about burying, grieving, saying goodbye to the pope in this week,” he said. Continue reading...
