Cardinal Mamberti presides at final Mass for Pope Francis
May 05, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Dominique Mamberti presided on May 5 at the final Mass of the Novendiali, the nine memorial Masses traditionally celebrated for a deceased Roman Pontiff.
In his homily the French cardinal said that Pope Francis had “reminded the powerful that we must obey God rather than men, and proclaimed to all humanity the joy of the Gospel.” He said that the late Pope’s work was “grounded in the long moments of prayer that the Ignatian discipline had imprinted in him.”
Cardinal Mamberti, as the protodeacon of the College of Cardinals, will have the task of introducing the newly elected Pontiff to the world—unless, of course, he himself is elected.
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