World's Catholics look to Pope's successor
The world’s Catholics are looking to the College of Cardinals to begin the difficult task of choosing a worthy successor to Pope John Paul II today, as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who filled Rome to bursting for the pontiff’s funeral began their journey home.
Police cleared out the last few hundred people from St Peter’s Square last night and blocked it off with metal barricades, breaking up groups of Poles who stood in a circle in the drizzle, praying under their umbrellas.
