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Pope Francis’ body is transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica for public viewing
Catholic cardinals performed the ritual ceremony on Wednesday to transfer Pope Francis’ body from his home in the Vatican hotel to St. Peter’s Basilica to offer three days of public viewing before his funeral.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the Vatican administration until Francis’ successor is elected, presided over the ceremony in the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta hotel where Francis lived.
A choir sang as cardinals wearing their red cassocks and capes stood in prayer.
Francis’ casket was escorted by a procession of solemn cardinals and Swiss Guards through the same piazza where he greeted the faithful from his popemobile just days before in what would be his final goodbye.
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The ceremony with Pope Francis’ body, who will lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica for three days, passes through the crowd at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP)
Pallbearers carried the simple wooden coffin on their shoulders through the Vatican’s archway gates and out into St. Peter’s Square and into the basilica. The cardinals and the Swiss Guards processed slowly behind.
Ordinary faithful filled St. Peter’s Square to watch the procession enter the basilica.
Heads of state are expected for the funeral Saturday in St. Peter’s Square, but the three days of public viewing are largely for ordinary Catholics to pay their respects to the pontiff.
The basilica is being kept open until midnight on Wednesday and Thursday. The public mourning period will end on Friday at 7 p.m., when Francis’ casket will be closed and sealed.
The funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square. Leaders from around the world, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy and Argentine President Javier Milei, will attend the funeral for the pope, who was born in Argentina.
FIRST PHOTOS RELEASED OF POPE FRANCIS IN HIS CASKET; FUNERAL SET FOR SATURDAY
The ceremony with Pope Francis’ body, who will lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica for three days, passes through the crowd at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP)
Inside the basilica, Francis’ casket will not be put on an elevated bier like with past popes. Instead, it will just be placed on the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, simply facing the pews.
Cardinals continue to meet this week to plan the conclave to elect the next pope and make other decisions about running the Catholic Church.
Francis died Monday morning at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke that landed him in a coma and resulted in his heart failure. His death marked the end of his 12-year papacy as the 266th pope and spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
The body of Pope Francis is placed into St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, where he will lie in state for three days. (AP)
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The pope, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed when he was younger, spent 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli hospital starting on Feb. 14 to treat a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia.
He was still recovering when he made his last public appearance on Sunday, delivering an Easter blessing and what would be his final greeting to followers from his popemobile. The pope also met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Easter Sunday at the Casa Santa Marta.
In his final will, Francis confirmed he would be buried at St. Mary Major basilica, which is located outside the Vatican and home to his favorite icon of the Virgin Mary.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Wall Street y las bolsas mundiales se disparan tras las declaraciones conciliadoras de Trump sobre la Reserva Federal
Wall Street abrió con fuerte alza el miércoles, impulsada por la esperanza de una desescalada en la guerra comercial entre Washington y China y por declaraciones conciliadoras del presidente Donald Trump sobre la Reserva Federal (Fed, banco central).
El S&P 500 subía un 2,9% en las primeras operaciones, tras una gran ganancia el martes que borró una pérdida casi igual de grande el lunes. El Promedio Industrial Dow Jones subió 967 puntos, o un 2,5%, a las 9:35 a.m. hora del este, y el compuesto Nasdaq subió un 3,7%.
Las ganancias de Wall Street se produjeron después de las fuertes subidas de las bolsas de gran parte de Europa y Asia. También continúan una vertiginosa racha de altibajos para los mercados mientras los inversores luchan por cómo reaccionar ante tanta incertidumbre sobre lo que Trump hará con sus políticas económicas. Incluso después de la gran subida del miércoles por la mañana, el S&P 500 sigue estando un 11,5% por debajo de su récord establecido a principios de año, tras caer brevemente un 20% por debajo.
Por eso, una de las pocas predicciones que muchos a lo largo de Wall Street están dispuestos a hacer es sólo que las oscilaciones bruscas continuarán durante un tiempo. Lo más probable es que el mercado “siga dictado por los últimos caprichos de Trump en materia de aranceles y comercio”, dijo Tim Waterer, analista jefe de mercado de KCM Trade.
El último movimiento del mercado se debe en gran parte a que Trump dijo a última hora del martes que no tiene “ninguna intención” de despedir al jefe de la Reserva Federal. Trump se había enfadado con Jerome Powell, a quien había calificado de “gran perdedor”, por las dudas de la Fed a la hora de recortar los tipos de interés.
Aunque recortar los tipos podría dar un impulso a la economía, también podría presionar al alza la inflación. Los economistas dicen que es probable que los aranceles de Trump ralenticen la economía y aumenten la inflación, al menos brevemente.
Las duras palabras de Trump asustaron a Wall Street porque se supone que la Fed actúa de forma independiente, sin presiones de los políticos, para poder tomar decisiones que pueden ser dolorosas a corto plazo pero que son las mejores a largo plazo. La mayoría de los juristas coinciden en que Trump no puede despedir a Powell de la junta de gobernadores de la Fed, y no hay precedentes legales para hacerlo. Sin embargo, hay menos acuerdo sobre si un presidente puede destituirlo como presidente.
Trump puede haber reconocido el temor del mercado a una medida contra Powell. También puede estar buscando mantener cerca a alguien a quien Trump pueda culpar más tarde si la economía cae en una recesión.
“De hecho, si la Fed recorta sus tipos de interés de forma agresiva, Trump tendría pocas excusas para una recesión, aparte de la pugnacidad de sus políticas arancelarias”, dijo Thierry Wizman, estratega de Macquarie.
Los mercados también subieron después de que Trump dijera a última hora del martes que los aranceles estadounidenses a las importaciones procedentes de China probablemente se reducirán “sustancialmente” desde el 145% actual. “No será tan alto, no va a ser tan alto”, dijo Trump.
La esperanza a lo largo de Wall Street ha sido que Trump pueda rebajar sus aranceles tras negociar acuerdos comerciales con otros países. Si reduce los aranceles lo suficiente y con rapidez, los inversores creen que podría evitarse una recesión.
Los comentarios de Trump también tuvieron un gran efecto en el mercado de bonos, donde los rendimientos del Tesoro bajaron bruscamente. Se trata de un cambio de tendencia con respecto a principios de este mes, cuando los crecientes rendimientos del Tesoro hacían temer que las acciones de Trump estuvieran ahuyentando a los inversores y debilitando la reputación del mercado de bonos estadounidense como uno de los lugares más seguros para aparcar efectivo.
El rendimiento del Tesoro a 10 años cayó al 4,27% desde el 4,41% a última hora del martes.
En Wall Street, Tesla ayudó a marcar el camino al subir un 4,7% después de que su consejero delegado, Elon Musk, dijera que pasará menos tiempo en Washington y más dirigiendo su empresa de vehículos eléctricos. Tesla registró a última hora del martes una fuerte caída de sus beneficios, y ha estado pasando apuros debido a las reacciones en contra de los esfuerzos de Musk por liderar los recortes de gastos del Gobierno estadounidense.
En los mercados bursátiles extranjeros, los índices subieron un 2,2% en Francia, un 2,4% en Hong Kong y un 1,9% en Japón. Las acciones en Shanghai fueron una excepción, donde cayeron un 0,1%.
(Con información de AP)
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The White House is steadfast in its support for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth amid media reports regarding his imminent ouster.
Hegseth has attracted scrutiny once more in recent weeks after the New York Times reported Sunday that he disclosed details about a March military airstrike in Yemen against the Houthis in a Signal messaging app group chat that included his wife, brother and lawyer – about a dozen people in total – on a personal phone before his confirmation. Hegseth maintains that no classified information was disclosed over Signal.
The incident follows a similar episode in March, where the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was included on a Signal group chat with other high-ranking Trump administration officials, including Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, discussing the same attack on the Houthis. National security advisor Mike Waltz later took «full responsibility» for that chat blunder.
But the White House says it supports Hegseth, and argued he’s faced a «smear campaign» since Trump tapped him for the post in December 2024.
DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH REBUFFS NEW GROUP CHAT ALLEGATIONS AS ATTEMPT TO ‘SABOTAGE’ TRUMP’S AGENDA
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has come under scrutiny amid a new report about his use of a Signal chat, which included his wife and brother, to discuss airstrikes. (Franco Brana/AFP via Getty Images)
«The secretary of defense is doing a tremendous job, and he is bringing monumental change to the Pentagon, and there’s a lot of people in the city who reject monumental change, and I think, frankly, that’s why we’ve seen a smear campaign against the secretary of defense since the moment that President Trump announced his nomination before the United States Senate,» White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.
«Let me reiterate: the president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth and the change that he is bringing to the Pentagon, and the results that he’s achieved thus far speak for themselves,» Leavitt said.
Hegseth has received backlash ever since Trump announced his nomination to lead the Pentagon, especially after allegations of sexual assault and alcohol misuse surfaced. In response, Hegseth told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing that he is not a «perfect person,» but asserted that he was the subject of a «coordinated smear campaign orchestrated in the media.»
Ultimately, no Democrats voted to confirm Hegseth. In contrast, only one Democrat voted against Trump’s first secretary of defense in 2016, retired Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis.
Hegseth has spearheaded multiple reforms, including a series of efforts to curb diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the Pentagon that he says are in accordance with executive orders from the Trump administration.
NPR reported Monday that the White House was eyeing a new secretary of defense, but Leavitt shut down the report immediately, labeling the report «fake news.» The NPR story was based on one anonymous U.S. official not authorized to speak to the media.
Meanwhile, Hegseth has maintained that the second Signal chat, like his first, did not include «war plans,» and that all discussions conducted over Signal were unclassified. Included in the group chat were Hegseth’s brother, Phil, who works at the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior advisor, according to the Associated Press. The defense secretary’s longtime personal attorney, Tim Parlatore, who was commissioned as a Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps commander right before the Signal chat, was also included, according to the Times report.
«I said repeatedly, nobody is texting war plans,» Hegseth told Fox News Tuesday. «I look at war plans every day. What was shared over Signal then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordinations, for media coordinations and other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning.»
Meanwhile, even some in Hegseth’s orbit predict that he will not remain in his post for much longer.
John Ullyot, a former senior communications official for the Pentagon who resigned in April under Hegseth, wrote that the abrupt Friday firings of three of Hegseth’s «most loyal» advisors – his aide Dan Caldwell, his deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, Colin Carroll – were alarming and «baffling.»
«The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president – who deserves better from his senior leadership,» Ullyot wrote in a Sunday op-ed for Politico.
«Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account,» he wrote. «Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer.»
Caldwell and Selnick were included in the second Hegseth group chat, according to the Times.
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Sen. Jack Reed is calling for an investigation into Hegseth’s use of Signal. (Reuters)
Senate Democrats are also clamoring for Hegseth to resign. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member, asked the Pentagon’s inspector general to conduct a report into Hegseth’s use of the Signal chat.
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«Since he was nominated, I have warned that Mr. Hegseth lacks the experience, competence, and character to run the Department of Defense,» Reed said in a Sunday statement. «In light of the ongoing chaos, dysfunction, and mass firings under Mr. Hegseth’s leadership, it seems that those objections were well-founded.»
«Accountability starts at the top, and I have grave concerns about Secretary Hegseth’s ability to maintain the trust and confidence of U.S. service members,» he stated.
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