John Swinney at ‘very moving’ funeral as Scots mark death of Pope Francis

John Swinney speaks of "very moving" and "uplifting" Pope Francis funeral

The First Minister was at the service in Rome earlier today.

Michelle O’Neill says attending funeral of Pope Francis was ‘huge honour’

The First Minister was at St Peter’s Square for the funeral mass of the late Pontiff

John Swinney at ‘very moving’ funeral as Scots mark death of Pope Francis

The First Minister also spoke of his own experience of Christianity, saying it ‘makes me who I am’.

John Swinney meets with Northern Ireland first minister during Pope Francis funeral

John Swinney has met with Northern Ireland's first minister while attending the funeral of Pope Francis ...

More than 250,000 faithful participated Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the grand funeral of Francis, the pope "close to people with a heart open to all", in the presence of an areopage of heads of state who used this informal framework for diplomatic exchanges, including Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

His costumes are already his personal mark. And with one of them, black and jacket and trousers, Giorgia Meloni went to the funeral of Pope Francis in the Basilica of St. Peter, in the Vatican. The Italian Prime Minister occupies a special place in the ceremony as representative of the host country and to which the Supreme Pontiff belonged, as did the Argentine president Javier Milei. Both took the first row with the president of Italy, Sergio M…