Overview

• Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday at age 88 from a stroke, is being honored in St. Peter’s Basilica, where his body will remain on view until Friday.
• The funeral mass, led by Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re, is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, followed by burial in Santa Maria Maggiore per Francis’s testamentary wishes.
• Heads of state, including U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, are expected to attend; Russian President Vladimir Putin will not due to an ICC arrest warrant.
• Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Farrell has assumed interim duties during the sede vacante, including confirming the pope’s death and sealing the papal apartments.
• The conclave to elect the next pope is set to begin in May, with 135 cardinal electors, two-thirds of whom were appointed by Francis, participating under strict secrecy.