The Vatican reported a significant turnout for Pope Francisâ funeral, estimating up to 200,000 attendees, including world leaders like Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As mourners paid their respects to the late Pope, who died on Easter Monday, security measures intensified. A moving homily by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re emphasized Pope Francisâ lifelong call for peace and negotiations in conflict, illustrating his belief that the Church should be a welcoming home for everyone. The tribute underscored the profound global impact and legacy of Pope Francis during his papacy.
During the homily, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re noted that Pope Francis urged peace and called for negotiations amid conflicts around the world. "Faced with the raging wars of recent years, with their inhuman horrors and countless deaths and destruction, Pope Francis incessantly raised his voice imploring peace and called for reason and honest negotiation to find possible solutions." Re also said Francis believed the Church is a "home for all." Francis was driven by "the conviction that the Church is a home for all, a home with the doors always open.... a Church capable of bending down to meet those who are suffering."
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