Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the cool and misty morning of Jan. 5 to say farewell to the retired German pope who steered the Church for eight turbulent years after the long papacy of John Paul II.
Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the cool and misty morning of Jan. 5 to say farewell to the retired German pope who steered the Church for eight turbulent years after the long papacy of John Paul II.