Remembering Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the death of the former pope after he passed away over the weekend at the age of 95.
Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for his “sharp and gentle thinking” Wednesday at the Vatican.
“His sharp and gentle thought was not self-referential, but ecclesial, because he always wanted to accompany us in the encounter with Jesus,” Francisco said during the statements.
He called Benedict a “great teacher of catechesis.”
Thousands of people paid tribute to the late Pope on the last day of the public viewing of the body of Benedict XVI, which lay in St. Peter’s Basilica before his funeral on Thursday.
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Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the hall of Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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Francis was greeted by supporters chanting “Long live the Pope” as he turned up for his weekly catechism appointment with the faithful.
The hearing took place as tens of thousands continued to pay their respects.
Mourners enter St. Peter’s Basilica where the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies at the Vatican, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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From Monday to Wednesday, the Vatican said nearly 160,000 people had passed through the basilica.
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The body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is displayed inside St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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Francis will preside over the funeral of the late German pope on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Vatican officials placed Benedict’s body in a cypress coffin, the first of three coffins, along with a brief written summary of his historical papacy, the coins minted during his pontificate and his canopy stoles.
The body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is displayed inside St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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After the funeral, the remains will be taken back to the basilica and the coffin will be placed in one of zinc and one of oak.
That will be placed in the crypt once occupied by the tomb of Saint John Paul II in the grottoes below the basilica.
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That tomb was moved upstairs to the main basilica before his beatification in 2011.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
