we now move to the prayer of the faithful. translator: brothers and sisters, let us pray to god our father for his forgiveness and rebirth to the living hope for the resurrection of jesus to the dead. the response is let us pray to the lord. translator: we pray in german. the pope emeritus benedict who has fallen asleep in the lord, may the eternal shepherd receive him into his kingdom of light and peace. translator: we pray in french. for our holy father pope francis and for all the pastors of the church, may they proclaim fearlessly in word and deed ch christ s victory over evil and death. 6 translator: we pray in arabic. for our leaders of nations and international organizations, may they strive to promote justice and peace with wisdom and foresight. translator: we pray in portuguese. for our brothers and sisters in need, may god s love open our hearts to compassion and concern for the poor and for the least of our brothers and sisters. tran
translator: we pray in german. the pope emeritus benedict who has fallen asleep in the lord, may the eternal shepherd receive him into his kingdom of light and peace. translator: we pray in french. for our holy father pope francis and for all the pastors of the church, may they proclaim fearlessly in word and deed ch christ s victory over evil and death. 6
theme of benedict s papacy and now francis s papacy. he spoke about the pastor and that is ultimately the job of the pope, to be the chief pastor. i think that jopope emeritus benedict xvi s legacy is as a teacher. i m not a fan of cannonizing popes, right away, a saint right away as people were saying during the funeral of john paul ii, i do think eventually some consideration should be given to declaring him a doctor of the church. there are only 37 doctors of the church, four of them women, raised up and being pointed out as being particularly clear and strong in their explanation and communication of the elements of
it is a looking glass moment for the vatican and very in keeping with perhaps one of the most humble men to occupy the theater. many thanks to all of you. we re now watching the beginning of the communion in the catholic funeral mass. the eucharist when the catholics believe that the bread and wine is being converted into the blood and body of christ. we re going to take a quick break from the formal pope s funeral. in a moment we ll speak with a progressive jesuit priest about the ceremony, how unprecedented it is, and pope benedict s service.
when we had popes who presided, popes who were professors. this was very much a professor pope. he reminded me of another benedict, benedict xiv who lived in the 1700s who wrote the book on canonization. how do you examine candidates for canonization and many of those rules are still standing. in terms of, you know, the power of the church going forward, does it lie more in liberal happened now with a liberal pope there sitting, presiding over the service? no. i have to say the church is a church of at its best the church is a church of both and and not either/or. the church s social teaching on the political spectrum is far