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Hey everybody,
Pope Francis is dead, to begin with.
Yesterday evening in Rome, Cardinal Kevin Farrell oversaw the sealing of the official papal apartments in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.
The sealed door of the papal apartment in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.
Soon after, Farrell oversaw the sealing of doors at the pope’s suite of rooms in the Santa Marta guesthouse:
Credit: Vatican Media.
Across Rome, and far from the city, bells tolled in church towers.
In the Church’s basilicas, umbrellinos — symbols of the pontiff’s universal leadership — were quietly closed, to signify a vacant papal chair in Rome.
And priests, at the altars of churches in near every country on the planet, had the strange experience of praying the canon without reference to the pope in Rome — for many, ordained in the last decade, it was the first time they’ve prayed that way.
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The pope died almost a month after he was discharged from the Gemelli Hospital, where he spent weeks in intensive care, with the world getting daily updates about how he slept, how he ate, how he breathed.
When he left the hospital, he seemed to be picking up steam, leaving his rooms in a wheelchair to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica, to meet with king and queen and vice president, to greet children and their surprised parents, and then, on Easter Sunday, to be driven for one final lap around St. Peter’s Square, waving feebly to pilgrims.
Continued below.
Pope Francis is dead, to begin with.
Yesterday evening in Rome, Cardinal Kevin Farrell oversaw the sealing of the official papal apartments in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.
The sealed door of the papal apartment in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.
Soon after, Farrell oversaw the sealing of doors at the pope’s suite of rooms in the Santa Marta guesthouse:
Credit: Vatican Media.
Across Rome, and far from the city, bells tolled in church towers.
In the Church’s basilicas, umbrellinos — symbols of the pontiff’s universal leadership — were quietly closed, to signify a vacant papal chair in Rome.
And priests, at the altars of churches in near every country on the planet, had the strange experience of praying the canon without reference to the pope in Rome — for many, ordained in the last decade, it was the first time they’ve prayed that way.
—
The pope died almost a month after he was discharged from the Gemelli Hospital, where he spent weeks in intensive care, with the world getting daily updates about how he slept, how he ate, how he breathed.
When he left the hospital, he seemed to be picking up steam, leaving his rooms in a wheelchair to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica, to meet with king and queen and vice president, to greet children and their surprised parents, and then, on Easter Sunday, to be driven for one final lap around St. Peter’s Square, waving feebly to pilgrims.
Continued below.
