OPINION - Why it's good for us to see Pope Francis's body — and anyway he looks better than Pope Benedict did

If you look at Vatican TV live right now, you’ll see a queue of people lining up inside St Peter’s basilica to visit the coffin at the top with the body of Pope Francis. It’s open and you can see the corpse…looking a bit grey, it must be said, but recognisably him. I recall the funerals I attended of his two predecessors. I was in those queues then and I remember the phones being raised as soon as people got into the basilica; before they saw anything of the spectacle, their phone saw it.