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Mourners from around the world flock to Rome to say goodbye to ‘pope of the people’
Pope Francis is the pope of the people,” Rosa de los Ríos told America in Spanish before the funeral Mass. “He is very close ...
Pope’s coffin passes Rome landmarks on journey to St. Mary Major Basilica
Crowds applauded and yelled “Papa Francesco!” as a slow-moving motorcade escorting the Pope’s coffin to his final resting ...
Pope Francis laid to rest in Rome; 400,000 mourners bid farewell to the ‘pope among the people’
Hundreds of thousands gathered in Rome to bid farewell to Pope Francis, the beloved champion of the poor, after his death at ...
Francis celebrated as ‘pope among the people’ in Vatican funeral attended by massive crowd
The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral Mass in Vatican City, where mourners joined in a ...
Among the meek and the mighty, Catholics bury their ‘people’s pope’
The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...
'Something different in the air' as hushed Rome reckons with Pope's death
Visitors have noticed a unique atmosphere here at the Vatican in the days before Pope Francis's funeral and the conclave.