The death of a pope and the election of a new pontiff is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony,

as these passings and renewals have for centuries.

For more on how the church will celebrate and mourn Francis and what comes next,

we're joined by special correspondent Malcolm Brabant, who is in Rome for us tonight.

So Malcolm, how are people there remembering and mourning Pope Francis

tonight? Well, it's midnight here in Rome tonight, and so the atmosphere is rather serene.

Throughout the course of the day, thousands of people who have been traipsing into the Vatican

to pay their respects to a man who was both a colossus and also a very

humble kind of parish priest, even though he would hold the highest office in the Catholic Church

leading 1.4 billion Catholics around the world. So there's a great sense of sorrow that

a great man has passed away. And there's also a sense of sorrow that a great man has passed away.

And there's also a sense of admiration for the courage that he has displayed as he fought the illness over the past few months.

And the fact that he managed to eke out his life to the most important date in the Christian calendar Easter before giving that blessing in St. Peter's just behind me yesterday,

saying that wishing people happy Easter.

And people felt very much that he was saying goodbye to them.

And so there's a great sense of loss, but not shock.

Walk us through what comes next, the timeline for the funeral and the burial and the church picking a successor.

What's going to happen tomorrow is that cardinals from all around the world are going to

gather to decide on the date of the funeral. And that has to take place between up to six days

after his death was announced.

So we're looking at possibly Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

The decision will be made tomorrow.

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