Bertone said the funeral was a "precious moment" to understand the meaning of life and death.
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone on Wednesday thanked Pope Benedict for his service.
"The leaks will end when Bertone is out as secretary of state, " Galeazzi said.
When he became Vatican secretary of state, Bertone "did what normally happens, " said the Rev.
Reports of differences with Cardinal Bertone fuel suspicions (unfair or not) that the secretary of state favours laxity.
In 1997, Nuccio Bertone, one of the automobile world's great mentors and the doyen of Italian design, died.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, is involved in a power struggle with his predecessor, the observers said.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided over the Mass as an envoy from Pope Benedict XVI, who plans to visit the region after Easter.
During the vacancy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Holy See's camerlengo, Italian for chamberlain, takes charge with the help of three cardinal assistants.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said church leaders could not be "simple spectators to the tragedy taking place in Syria".
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone later thanked Benedict for his service.
They attended a Mass led by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone.
For the rest of his career Cardinal Bertone was a pastoral cleric.
Others concern poison pen memos criticising Carinal Tarcisio Bertone, the pope's number two, and the reporting of suspicious payments by the Vatican Bank.
BBC: Vatican launches criminal probe into unauthorised leaks
Bertone did not address the specific claims that were first published in La Repubblica, the country's largest circulation daily newspaper, on Thursday and Friday.
Whatever his ambitions, Cardinal Bertone has proved a singularly divisive figure.
Cardinal Bertone, who rose in the Vatican's hierarchy as a close ally of Benedict's, has many enemies within the high walls of the world's tiniest independent state.
These promotions intensified suspicion among Cardinal Bertone's critics that he was trying to pack the next conclave: the assembly of cardinals that will elect the next pope.
The leaked papal letters also show that Cardinal Bertone tried unsuccessfully to bluff the then archbishop of Milan into resigning a post that controls the city's Catholic University.
The current camerlengo is Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who heads the commission of cardinals overseeing the scandal-marred Institute for Religious Works, outlined the efforts to clean up the bank's image in international financial circles.
To prevent forgery, Bertone will break the pope's fisherman's ring by hitting it with a small hammer, a tradition that was started when the ring was used to seal documents.
Some cardinals have suggested restructuring the Curia's chain of command, breaking up the all-powerful post of secretary of state, which was held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone under Pope Benedict XVI.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state to the late John Paul II, is trying to sideline Bertone and put one of his own proteges in place before Benedict dies, he said.
Cardinal Bertone, officials say, was consumed by the overlapping burdens of his office, which oversees the Holy See's sprawling diplomatic corps as well as bureaucracies ranging from papal communications to Vatican finances.
WSJ: Bid to Remake Church Will Focus on Vatican Administration
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state, has been ordered by Pope Benedict XVI to ensure that the Vatican's money managers "reduce costs in the face of a continuing inability to increase revenues".
To strengthen his position further, Cardinal Bertone promoted close associates and former subordinates from the region around his former diocese of Genoa and his native Piedmont, also in the north-west of Italy.
Jovial but brash, Cardinal Bertone has clashed behind the scenes with both the head of the Catholic church in Italy and the boss of the Vatican bank, the Institute for Works of Religion.
The Vatican vehemently denied the allegations Saturday, with Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone criticizing a rash of "often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories" as the cardinals prepare for their conclave.
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