A Catholic Charities Boston leader, a couple from Mass. on their honeymoon and a Cambridge boys’ choir were thrilled to see Pope Francis in Rome in recent years. They now feel more blessed, to have seen ‐ and in some cases meet ‐ the pontiff before he died on Monday.

The most extraordinary aspect of the funeral Mass for Pope Francis was its astonishingly beautiful ordinariness. With the great and the good gathered from around the globe on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square,

The voices of the choir echoed throughout the sanctuary on Monday at the Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul in Tyler.