ROME – After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and the church ahead of electing his successor, the world’s cardinals gathered at Francis’s tomb to pray.
Speaking to journalists ahead of an April 27 Vespers service at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where Pope Francis is buried, Irish Cardinal Sean Brady said he remembered the Argentinian pontiff “with great joy and happiness and gratitude to God, who had given us such a wonderful pope for twelve years”.
