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live pictures of st. peters square in vatican city as we continue with our special coverage of the funeral of pope benedict xvi. very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. im bianca nobilo. >> im max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peters square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. >> pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a sho...

Taking him in his strong hand and guiding him in this new phase of his life. i think it is completely appropriate between john paul ii and benedict. whats happening now is the papal casket, we saw the casket of cypress. its now been placed in a zinc coffin and that in turn has been placed into a coffin of elm. that is being placed into the tomb that has been prepared for benedict. once the ceremonies are complete and once the crowd has dispersed, then people will be able to enter the basilica, g...

This was my thought, this person who gave his whole life to the church was being honored as that. i thought pope franciss thought was faithful friend of the bridegroom, this was a way to sum up his faith filled life. >> christopher, its interesting. one of the take aways ive had from speaking with all of you this morning is this notion as father james martin was just saying, that in many ways pope benedict had been an asset to pope francis. there was a lot of focus and perhaps even an over empha...

Appropriate note to conclude on. john allen, christopher bellito and father james martin, thank you very much. catholics around the world have bid farewell to pope emeritus benedict xvi. shortly well go to where his funeral mass just ended. n. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health.h. ensurere with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of p protein. ♪ for skinin as alive as you are... dont settle for silver. harness the power of 7 moisturize...

The council, 1952 to 1965 is when the council sat. there are many ways of living vatic vatican, many ways of being catholic, all of them authentic and to say one way of interpreting the council or one way of being catholic is the right way and the others arent i think thats whats going on. hes going after both ands catholicism, not either/osh catholicism. >> one thing that is also significant here, now saint john paul iis canonization is the swiftest beautification in history, if i believe. norm...

>> joining us is christopher bellito, history chair and author of "when a pope dies." its good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> whats interesting, christopher, is that these two popes now, saints maybe embody opposite opposing ends of catholicism. explain that, how the difference between a pope john paul ii and a pope john xxiii and their different views of catholicism. >> sure. im going to respectfully disagree with you. >> okay. >> i dont think that john xxiii is a pure liberal and joh...