There are images that do not fade. The chant of the traditional antiphon In Paradisum floated above St. Peter’s Square, as the Church entrusted the soul of Pope Francis to the heavenly Jerusalem, on April 26.
The long cortege of crimson-clad cardinals followed in silence, the weight of centuries upon their shoulders; the solemn procession of the 133 cardinal-electors, filing slowly from the Pauline Chapel to the Sistine Chapel, accompanied by the ancient hymn Veni Creator Spiritus calling down the Holy Spirit as the conclave was about to start, May 7.
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