The Funeral of Pope Francis

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy briefly just prior to the funeral of Pope Francis, who spent a lifetime as a cleric working to build bridges. 

"He knew how to speak to each one of us with acts of love, to those of us who are migrants … those of us who are marginalized," said one Guatemalan migrant living in Rome.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned out to mourn the charismatic leader of the Catholic Church.

After funeral, Argentine Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi looks ahead to next pope and hope to continue the message of the Francis pontificate.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump, talk before the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican April 26.(AP/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office)

Many young people who had planned to attend the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, were among those who paid their respects to the late pontiff April 26. 

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election expressed his desire for "a church that is poor and for the poor."

Some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. president and the late pope — not only their divergent styles but their positions on migration, the environment and poverty — will come into sharper focus as President Donald Trump travels to Rome for Pope Francis' funeral.