live pictures of st. peter s square in vatican city as we continue with our special coverage of the funeral of pope benedict xvi. very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peter s square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a short while ago. before that, nearly 200,000 people paid their respects to the late pope during the last three days of public viewing. benedict will be buried in the vatican crypt inside the basilica. t the. now that the funeral services are over, what are your personal reflections? what did it mean to you as a catholic? well, one of the things that i was thinking as i looked out and saw all of these people that pope benedict had known for so many years was the real sort of scope of his caree
he certainly in the first years of his papacy did have a lot of energy at that point in time when he went to germany for the first time, for the world youth day. he later went back to bavaria. those were the highlight years of his pontificate. the early stages. then things became more difficult as time went on. this definitely was a ceremony that speaks to the legacy of pope benedict xvi inside the vatican as one of the most powerful people there over the decades but also someone who never lost touch with his roots. i think it s very fitting that you have such a large delegation and so many people coming from his bavarian homeland and from the rest of germany as well, guys. delia, you cover the papacy so closely, and i believe you may have met the former pope benedict xvi as well. for yourself, your team, those around you, with all of the ceremony of today, the funeral,