Poor to welcome Pope’s casket to Santa Maria Maggiore
April 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: A group of poor and needy people will welcome Pope Francis’s casket to the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore following his funeral Mass, the Holy See Press Office has announced.
“The poor have a privileged place in the heart of God,” according to the press office, as well as “in the heart and magisterium of the Holy Father, who had chosen the name Francis to never forget them.”
“For this reason, a group of the poor and needy will be present on the steps leading to the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major to pay their last respects to Pope Francis before the burial of his coffin,” the statement continued.
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