Rosa Icela Rodriguez will attend Pope Francis’ funeral, in the representation of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she will not attend Pope Francis’ funeral, but that Secretary of the Interior Rosa Icela Rodríguez will attend on his behalf.
The president commented during her morning press conference, “We are sending Rosa Icela Rodríguez as a representative of the Mexican government. “
The Pontiff’s funeral will take place next Saturday, April 26, in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
The Vatican said the funeral will follow the rites laid out in the “Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis.” This liturgical book, detailing the procedures for papal funerals, was published in 2000 but revised by Francis last year.
Diego Ravelli, master of apostolic ceremonies, said Francis had sought to “simplify and adapt” the ceremony, so that the papal funeral is “that of a pastor and disciple of Christ, and not of a powerful person in this world.”
Source: OEM
