(Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)] The pope’s body, dressed in a white cassock, would be taken to a private chapel where Farrell, church officials and the pope’s family would watch Francis be placed into a coffin.
(Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)] A pope’s death is confirmed by the head of the Vatican’s health department and the Holy Roman Church’s cardinal chamberlain.
Pope Francis on Saturday, presiding at Holy Mass for the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals, encouraged the group of twenty-one new cardinals from across the globe to ?
20 new cardinals, four of them over eighty, therefore not electors in a future eventual conclave, were created by Pope Francis in the eighth consistory of his pontificate, which was concluded with the vote on canonization of Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Artemide Zatti.
The current cardinal chamberlain, camerlengo in Italian, Kevin Joseph Farrell, would automatically become the Vatican’s top administrator and is charged with revealing to the world the pope has passed.
