{"id":4001,"date":"2025-04-26T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/pope-francis-buried-inside-his-favourite-rome-church-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:33:43","slug":"pope-francis-buried-inside-his-favourite-rome-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/pope-francis-buried-inside-his-favourite-rome-church-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Buried Inside His Favourite Rome Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The official programme of the ceremonies for Pope Francis:<\/p>\n<p>9:00 am IST<\/p>\n<p>St Peter&#8217;s Square opens.<\/p>\n<p>1:00 pm IST<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive in St Peter&#8217;s Square.<\/p>\n<p>1:30 pm IST<\/p>\n<p>The funeral mass begins. It will be presided over by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis&#8217;s wooden and zinc coffin, sealed on Friday evening, will be placed in front of the basilica before a temporary raised altar. To its left, facing St Peter&#8217;s, will sit the red-robed cardinals. To the right, official delegations from around the world, seated in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony should last about 90 minutes, with 224 cardinals and 750 priests and bishops in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>3:00 pm IST<\/p>\n<p>The coffin leaves for Santa Maria Maggiore, the Rome basilica where Pope Francis will be buried.<\/p>\n<p>4:30 pm IST<\/p>\n<p>The coffin arrives at Santa Maria Maggiore, where it will be welcomed by a group of the &#8220;poor and needy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The burial, presided over by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who as camerlengo is running the Vatican&#8217;s day-to-day affairs until a new pope is elected, will take place in private.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official programme of the ceremonies for Pope Francis: 9:00 am IST St Peter&#8217;s Square opens. 1:00 pm IST US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive in St Peter&#8217;s Square. 1:30 pm IST The funeral mass begins. It will be presided over by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}