Requiem Mass for the late Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - NOVEMBER 03: (EDITOR NOTE: STRICTLY EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO MERCHANDISING). A general view of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Leo XIV presides at a Requiem Mass for the late Pope Francis and Cardinals and Bishops who have died over the course of the past year on November 03, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. At the traditional Mass offered in suffrage for the souls of Cardinals and Bishops who have died in the course of the past year, Pope Leo prayed “with great affection for the elect soul of Pope Francis, who died after opening the Holy Door and imparting the Easter Blessing to Rome and the whole world.” The Jubilee Year, he said, gives this Mass “a distinctive flavour – the flavour of Christian hope.” (Photo by Elisabetta Trevisan - Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)