Rome | St Peter’s Square erupted in applause for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Inside the Basilica, he and Donald Trump huddled with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer. The occasion was the funeral of Pope Francis – but the optics were all about the geopolitics of the moment.
Even the homily, delivered by one of the most senior figures of the Catholic Church, alluded to tensions over US policy on immigration.
