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
and say we should embrace the world, not be afraid of the world. john paul ii was a bishop, one of the boy bishops as they called him, because he was in his late 30s at the time, for all of the sessions. and so when you re at the council, if you wrote some of the documents, as joseph radzinger did, you re invested in the council in some way. francis is a child of the council. he was not ordained until 1969, four years later. it typically takes the church between 50 and 100 years to figure out what a council is. the so, you know, to oversimply my there were some interpretations that went maybe a little too far in the experimental stage. then there was a bit of a blowback during the john paul ii, now i think we are in a natural synthesis time, coming up on the 60th anniversaries of
Selecting Nicholas Bishops, or Boy Bishops, was once a popular tradition throughout Europe, from the tip of Italy to the Hebrides in Scotland and from Ireland to Hungary. The ceremony […]