Australian Cardinal George Pell was given a funeral Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica.
As is customary for funerals of cardinals, a final blessing, delivered in Latin, in the form a prayer for mercy and eternal rest, was recited by Pope Francis.
Right after Pell’s death, it was revealed that the cardinal was the author of a memo that had been circulating for many months. In the memo, Pell had lamented that the current papacy as a “disaster” and a “catastrophe.” Those issues are expected to be hotly debated later this year in a meeting of bishops from around the world summoned by Francis to the Vatican.
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