{"id":1795373,"date":"2023-01-04T18:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795373"},"modified":"2023-01-04T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:04:37","slug":"heads-of-state-are-paying-their-last-respects-to-pope-benedict-biden-isnt-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heads-of-state-are-paying-their-last-respects-to-pope-benedict-biden-isnt-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads of State are paying their last respects to Pope Benedict. Biden Isn\u2019t One Of Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheads-of-state-are-paying-their-last-respects-to-pope-benedict-biden-isnt-one-of-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>VATICAN \u2014 Now ends the final day for pilgrims to pay their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, with Heads of State being among the estimated 200k to visit St Peter\u2019s Basilica over the last three days. The world&#8217;s leaders included the presidents and prime minsters of Poland and Portugal, Germany, Italy and Hungary. There were also royal families from Spain and Germany. Notably missing \u2014 leadership from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-wont-represent-u-s-at-benedicts-funeral-per-wishes-of-the-late-pope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a> Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press secretary, stated on Tuesday that the U.S. Joe Donnelly, the American Ambassador to Holy See, will represent the United States at funeral of Pope. \u201cThis is what \u2014 this is what their requests were. This is what their wishes were,\u201d She answered when she was asked why the president didn&#8217;t attend.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire inquired of the Vatican Press Office regarding the details to this request after learning that the Vatican asked the president to send a representative, rather than him attending. \u201crequest.\u201d Our inquiry was not answered by him directly but Matteo Bruni, Vatican spokesperson, told us. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/01\/04\/benedict-xvis-funeral-will-be-historic-how-the-vatican-will-bury-the-first-pope-emeritus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euro News<\/a> That \u201cif other heads of state or government come, they will do so in a personal capacity,\u201d seeming to place the choice of attendance on the individual leaders \u2014 as seen by the number of leaders who have chosen to pay their respects \u2014 seeming to contradict Jean-Pierre\u2019s assertions. Bruni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253242\/catholic-president-joe-biden-will-not-attend-benedict-xvis-funeral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> Journalists were told that there were only two state delegations \u201cofficially invited\u201d To the funeral<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican released several articles previewing what is to be expected at tomorrow\u2019s funeral, through its state-run media organization. Pope Francis will preside over his predecessor\u2019s liturgy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/it\/papa\/news\/2023-01\/papa-emerito-benedetto-xvi-esequie-pontefici-funerali-vaticano.html\">first pope to do so since 1802<\/a>, when Pius VII presided over a solemn funeral of Pius VI \u2014 who died in exile as a prisoner of Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2023-01\/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-requiem-mass-details.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> on Tuesday that the late Pope Emeritus would be placed in a cypress coffin, and interred within the former tomb of Pope St. John Paul II within St. Peter\u2019s Basilica crypt, per his request. The Holy See stated that the liturgy would be simplified and removed rites that relate to the death or resignation of a reigning pontiff. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breeadail\/status\/1609150965260640256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once more<\/a> As if future popes would resign, it seems that this precedent was set.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire will report on the historic funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN \u2014 Now ends the final day for pilgrims to pay their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, with Heads of State being among the estimated 200k to visit St Peter\u2019s Basilica over the last three days. Listed among the world leaders were the presidents and prime ministers of Poland, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":1795376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12174,3620,6202,9243,5778,13194,9592,13319,3658,6195],"class_list":["post-1795373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-benedict","tag-biden","tag-daily","tag-heads","tag-isnt","tag-paying","tag-pope","tag-respects","tag-them","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}