Cardinal George Pell has been remembered as a man who experienced great suffering at a requiem mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, where Pope Francis gave the final blessing.
Cardinal Pell was farewelled on Saturday at the Vatican in the same church where he was ordained in 1966 and where Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral was held earlier this month.
The most senior Australian member of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Pell died in Rome on January 10 at the age of 81 from heart complications following hip surgery.
The mass was led by an Italian cardinal, Giovanni Battista Re, in his role as Dean of the College of Cardinals, before the final blessing, delivered in Latin, was recited by Pope Francis….