The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 15:00 EDT

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Hello and welcome to a CBC Radio special, Remembering Pope Francis, I'm Pia Chattopadhyay. The world gathered for Pope Francis' funeral at the Vatican earlier today. It was a moving and somber ceremony filled with ancient traditions attended by modern leaders of the Catholic Church as well as political leaders from around the world. And it was watched by the everyday faithful who this pope always put at the center of the church. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday after being hospitalized for pneumonia earlier this year. He was 88 years old. On Friday, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, presided over the

right of the ceiling of Pope Francis' coffin. And then, today, at 10am Vatican time, the funeral mass at St. Peter's Square, presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Ray, Dean of the College of Cardinals. On the cobbled esplanade and main route to the Basilica, the Vatican said some 250,000 mourners gathered to hear the ceremony. These things happened maybe once in a lifetime or so that we thought it was important to pay homage and come here. It's a privilege to be here. We go to a Jesuit university, so the first Jesuit pope means a lot.

He was such a wonderful man, so it means a lot to be here in Rome, to be with everyone else. It's really lively and I think that speaks a lot to his character. People are excited to be here. He was a very special person, the way he wanted to treat the people, and it's not really necessary to be religious to appreciate this. I think it's an opportunity to unite ourselves with the universal church. There are people from all over the world and we've got to be able to show our faith and we've got to be able to present ourselves as a united church behind one Holy Father. Crowds of people lined the streets to watch the Pope's coffin pass by.

Pope Francis was taken to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore where he wanted to be laid to rest. CBC's Rome correspondent Megan Williams is in Vatican City. Megan, hello. Good morning, Pia. What has it been like to be in Vatican City and Rome today? It's just been a pretty incredible moment. I think everybody here realizes just how historic it is. It's the end of an era really. Pope Francis' papacy was unusual.

He brought about a lot of change in the Catholic Church and at the Vatican. And he was also very beloved by Italians and Romans, the majority of whom made up the crowd today. So just moving and historic. Megan, you use the word unusual. Pope Francis was known for breaking tradition with the Catholic Church time and time again. So how was that captured at the funeral today? What was unusual about it?

What really struck me the most was the simplicity of the homily. Sometimes in funerals, the homilies can sound kind of anonymous, but this one really captured the spirit of the Pope. It was read by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Ray, who is not going to be at the conclave. He's an older Cardinal, he's 91, but he just really captured the Pope's spirit. He talked about what was important to the Pope, his first visit to Lampedusa to visit the migrants, then Lesbos, the U.S.-Mexican border. He talked about the Pope's emphasis over a culture of encounter, over what he called a culture of waste. He talked about

the Pope speaking out against wars. And of course, what the Pope said at the end of his