MORE than Diego Maradona and more than Lionel Messi, Pope Francis was the most famous Argentinian who ever lived – and, even in the company of World Cup winners, by far the most beloved.
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So under a blue Roman sky on a beautiful spring day, they came from every corner of the planet, from every station in life, for the funeral of Pope Francis.
In dazzling sunshine, his funeral mass in St Peter’s Square was watched by 50 black-clad world leaders, ten reigning monarchs and one future king — our own Prince William — and, facing them across the square, serried rows of red-and-white-robed cardinals, archbishops and bishops.
And the mass was watched by the people — 40,000 of them in St Peter’s Square, and 200,000 more beyond Vatican City, in the streets of Rome, all hushed in their mourning.
The world leaders paid their respects. But it was the people who silently wept.
As the funeral mass unfolded, you understood there is a deference that comes with being head of the Roman Catholic Church and…
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