Greetings, parish orphans and retrogrades.

We are a little over 15 hours from the funerary service of Pope Francis I, which takes place tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.

Local time in Rome at St. Peter's Basilica.

We're going to bring you a little up-to-date sort

of synopsis of who's going to be there, what's going to happen, what's going to happen after

the funeral. When will the conclave begin? All of that. So that's what today's show is. I thought

about live streaming the funeral, but I don't really know that anyone wants to get up at seven in the morning,

sorry, three in the morning if you're in Central Standard Time.

And it's also disrespectful to really say anything over the Holy Pontiffs

or really anyone for that matter's funeral.

So it makes more sense for us to give you the play-by-play, if you will,

ahead of time and to tell you what to expect over the course of the next, let's say, 11 days.

Because there's a standard tradition in the Catholic Church of a nine-day wait after the burial.

So it begins, nine days begins tomorrow on Saturday and the 26th, and will end on Sunday going into Monday of nine days later,

which is going to be the first week of May.

At that point, probably Monday, Tuesday, the conclave will begin to elect the 267th Pope.

So that's what today's show will be.

Who's going to be there tomorrow?

Who's going to be leading the funeral?

Who does lead the funeral?

It's typically the dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Ray,

and what other heads of state are going to be there.

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