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his funeral will be held on the 5th ofjanuary and will be presided over by pope francis. world health officials call on beijing to share accurate covid data, as england becomes the latest country to control arrivals from china. queen guitarist brian may and members of england's women's football team are among those celebrated in the uk's new year's honours list. the former pope, benedict xvi, has died at the age of 95. the vatican says he passed away this morning at his residence there. his health had been worsening in recent weeks. benedict served as head of the roman catholic churc...

The catholic church has been plagued by scandal. most recently the sexual abuse of children and cover-up, money-laundering allegations, the vatican bank, the so-called vati-leaks including the release of embarrass iing papal documents by a vatican butler. six months into his papacy, observers say pope francis is changing the narrative. >> it was church in crisis. it was catholic watergate. now within 24 hours after francis' election we were talking about new day dawns for the catholic church and charismatic pope takes the world by storm. >> in july, francis took his first international trip as...

Of his age. because he wasn't on anybody's list. and that said, i think the key fact of him is that he took the name francis. it's the first francis ever, took it from st. francis of assisi, one of whose great stories involved being told by christ, clean up my church which is in ruins. this suggests to me that this very humble seeming man, even a shy seeming man, a guy with little show biz, it suggestion suggests to me, he knows the trouble the church is in, the vati-leaks and at age 76 will move urgently my sense is and try to clean up.

Will tell you dolan may not be bad for church, he's outspoken, to the point and very open about his desires to reform the church on so many levels from the banking scandal, to vati-leaks and the crisis in the church regarding children and sex, and whether that sort of openness would be welcome among the fold here in rome where, as you mentioned, for hundreds of years the italians had a lock and strong hold on the papacy, whether that would be a welcome and open things remains to be seen. >> we'll see. >> megyn: he's likeable and can talk to folks in a way they can understand and that's one of ...

Ann thompson is in rome for us. vati-leaks with the fallout over basically some reports of what happened, some different investigations. a cardinal resigned in the uk. reports of inappropriate activity, cover-ups, priests and prostitutes. messy. fill in the gaps here. >> reporter: yeah, it really is, chuck. what's happened in the final days of benedict's papacy is taken the scandals that marred the papacy and sort of put them in the three-week span. i mean, obviously, the biggest development is the resignation of cardinal keith o'brien, the cardinal from scotland. and he was accused of inappro...