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live pictures of st. peter's 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. i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peter's square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. >> pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a short while ago. before that, nearly 200,000 people paid their respects to the late pope during the...

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. what's happening now is the papal casket, we saw the casket of cypress. it's 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, go down to the crypt and pray before benedict's tomb. i would expect over the next several days and...

This was my thought, this person who gave his whole life to the church was being honored as that. i thought pope francis's thought was faithful friend of the bridegroom, this was a way to sum up his faith filled life. >> christopher, it's interesting. one of the take aways i've 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 emphasis on the schism between their positions on church doctrine. it seems the two men did have a lot...

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 we'll 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... don't settle for silver. harness the power of 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins tomooth, heal, and moisturize your dry skin. gold bon champion your skin. pain hit...

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 aren't i think that's what's going on. he's going after both ands catholicism, not either/osh catholicism. >> one thing that is also significant here, now saint john paul ii's canonization is the swiftest beautification in history, if i believe. normally you have to wait five years and this was expedited i think if i remember correctly, made p...