The Death of the Pope
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, Pope Francis has died aged 88.
The first Latin American leader of the of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis had been in hospital for 5 weeks due to pneumonia. Adam and Aleem Maqbool, the BBC’s Religion Editor discuss his legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | That was the sound of a service being held in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican in Rome |
| 0:24.5 | to mark the death of Pope Francis, news we got on Monday morning from the Vatican who said |
| 0:31.6 | that he died at 735 local time. And so that's what we'll talk about on this episode of newscast. While that service was |
| 0:40.8 | underway, we got two pieces of news from the Vatican. They confirmed that the Pope died of a stroke |
| 0:47.6 | and heart failure. We also got the Pope's Final Testament, which is the message he wanted to be released after his death, |
| 0:56.0 | mainly where he talks about where he wants his remains to be placed. And that's not in the Vatican, |
| 1:03.0 | but in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major, which is a chapel outside the Vatican and where |
| 1:08.7 | seven other popes have been laid to rest. So the death of Pope Francis, |
| 1:14.6 | the leader of more than a billion Catholics around the world, is what we will focus on in this |
| 1:19.4 | episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 1:26.7 | Did I say that? |
| 1:29.3 | I can't believe I said that. |
| 1:30.1 | Next Wednesday. |
| 1:32.7 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam. |
| 1:37.2 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:38.1 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:39.8 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:41.5 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:42.2 | Blimey. |
| 1:44.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, |
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