VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has simplified papal funeral rituals to better reflect the head of the Catholic Church's status as a humble pastor rather than 'person of power,' the Vatican said on Wednesday.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has simplified papal funeral rituals to better reflect the head of the Catholic Church's status as a humble pastor rather than 'person of power,' the Vatican said on Wednesday.Deceased popes traditionally have three coffins — one made out of cypress, one of lead and one of elm — which are placed one inside the other, before the papal body is interred. From now on, there will be just one simple coffin, made of wood and zinc.
This updated 'Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis,' approved at the end of April by the 87-year-old pontiff, replaces a 2000 edition which was used at the funeral of St. John Paul II in April 2005.Francis said last year he was working to simplify papal funerals.The Argentine Jesuit wants to be buried not in St. Peter's Basilica alongside his immediate predecessors, but in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.
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