Noted:
- “Cardinal Farrell officially ascertains death of Pope Francis”
Vatican News (April 22, 2025) [includes embedded YouTube video] - “Pope Francis’ body to lie in state until funeral on Saturday morning”
Vatican News (April 22, 2025)
We’ve been handing the death of popes for something like two millennia now, so we have procedures for this sort of thing.
I mentioned his death yesterday. (Monday, it’s still Tuesday here in Minnesota.)
A few seconds of the 35-second video, showing “the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta”, was the first I’d seen of that place. The architecture is contemporary, the ceremony ancient.
That mix of what’s good in the old and the new is something I like about the Catholic Church. And being a Catholic.
I still don’t have much more to say, except that I’m glad he could die at the place he’d picked as “home”: the Domus Sanctae Marthae, “Saint Martha’s House”, on the south side of Vatican City.
I didn’t have much to say Monday, either:
- “Easter Monday: Pope Francis Has Died“
(April 21, 2025)
