CBS News Sunday Morning - Pope John Paul II death

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[0:10] good morning on a special Sunday a

[0:12] Sunday that finds Catholics the world

[0:14] over mour along with the rest of us the

[0:17] death of a pope I'm Anthony Mason at CBS

[0:20] News world headquarters in New York with

[0:22] special coverage of the death of Pope

[0:24] John Paul II at the Vatican the official

[0:27] 9-day period of Morning has begun with

[0:30] ceremonies of prayer and contemplation

[0:32] correspondent John Roberts is in Rome

[0:34] this morning with the latest good

[0:35] morning

[0:37] John good morning to you Anthony

[0:39] actually good afternoon it's 1:00 here

[0:41] in Rome about halfway through the first

[0:43] of the nine official days of morning

[0:46] after the death of Pope John Paul II in

[0:48] his Vatican apartment last night at 9:37

[0:51] p.m. Italian time it has been quite a

[0:53] scene this morning at St Peter Square

[0:55] after the square last night was filled

[0:57] with more than a 100,000 people 10 T of

[1:00] thousands more attended midm morning

[1:03] Mass the first of many funeral masses to

[1:06] occur over the next nine days of morning

[1:08] led by Cardinal Angelo sodano who was up

[1:10] until the Pope's death last night the

[1:12] Secretary of State but according to the

[1:14] apostolic Constitution now becomes just

[1:17] a regular Cardinal tens of thousands of

[1:19] people from across the city of Rome came

[1:21] this morning to this uh ceremony to

[1:24] celebrate mass for the pope to say a

[1:26] final farewell to the man who they both

[1:28] admired and loved he was so so well

[1:30] known here in Rome because he had

[1:31] visited just about every church that

[1:33] exists in Rome and they count more than

[1:35] a thousand a little while ago in the

[1:38] apostolic Palace in the Sal

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