UPDATE: Vatican officials hold funeral for man who used to live on streets nearby catholicnews.com
Two cardinals, an archbishop and a dozen priests concelebrated a funeral Mass Jan. 25 for Roberto Molinari, a soccer player decades ago, who spent much of the past few years living on the streets near the Vatican.
According to Vatican News, the many people whom Molinari befriended and who tried to help him recently convinced him to move into a homeless shelter after he’d had numerous bouts of pneumonia. The 64-year-old died in a shelter by Rome’s main train station.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, presided over the funeral Mass at the Rome parish of St. Pius X; Cardinal George Pell, who lives near where Molinari would sleep, concelebrated, as did Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments…
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