Honoring the Memory of His Holiness Pope Francis — Proclamation 10920 (Archive)

Historical — this mourning period has ended. This is an archival reproduction, not a notice to lower flags today.

Issued: April 21, 2025 · Document: Presidential Proclamation 10920 · President: Donald J. Trump

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Flag-display period and scope

• Type: One-time mourning.
• Flag: Flag of the United States.
• Period: From the April 21 proclamation until sunset on the day of interment.
• Scope: Federal national and overseas locations specified in the transcript.

The proclamation does not name a calendar end date. Vatican News records the burial on April 26, 2025, making that date’s sunset the end described by the directive.

Vatican News’s April 26 burial report supplies the interment date used in the explanation above.

Where the document does not specify an exact start time or time zone, none is inferred here. The complete source wording below controls the historical record.

Official document and signature page

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Official text: Honoring the Memory of His Holiness Pope Francis

The following is the White House’s published text. Wording is reproduced without editorial corrections; the surrounding explanation is separate from the presidential document.

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the memory of His Holiness Pope Francis, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment.

 I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

                               DONALD J. TRUMP

Official sources and archive notes

• Original White House proclamation
• Federal Register record — Proclamation 10920
• Official Federal Register PDF on GovInfo

The signed date and flag instruction were cross-checked against the official Federal Register PDF. Federal Register publication can occur after a proclamation was issued or after its flag-display period ended. This entry preserves that distinction.

This record is part of FORTISVEX’s archive for January 20, 2025 through October 25, 2026. It does not cover President Trump’s first term or state-only orders. Presidential source text is a U.S. federal government work reproduced for historical reference; reproduction does not imply government endorsement of FORTISVEX.