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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis , who has shunned much of the pomp and privilege of leading the global Catholic Church, has decided that a simple wooden casket will suffice when the time comes for his funeral.In a new formal rite published on Wednesday, the Vatican said Francis will forego a centuries-old practice of burying the late pope in three interlocking caskets made of cypress, lead and oak. Instead, Francis will be buried in a single, zinc-lined wooden coffin.
He now uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, but made two demanding foreign trips in September and hosted a major, month-long summit of Catholic leaders at the Vatican in October.The pope said last year he wanted to simplify the elaborate, book-long funeral rites that have been used for his predecessors.Francis also announced then that he will be the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in more than a century.Instead of being interred with some 91 other late popes in St.
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