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Pope Francis attends a prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. File.
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Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and critiques of capitalism, died on April 21, 2025. He was 88.
From his election on March 13, 2013, the Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio signaled a different papacy, embracing refugees and the downtrodden, especially following the troubled tenure of Pope Benedict XVI, who surprisingly resigned.
The crowd-loving, globe-trotting Pope also navigated the church through the coronavirus pandemic from a locked-down Vatican City, declaring it “has shown us that we cannot live without one another, or worse still, pitted against one another.” Pope Francis was elected on a mandate to reform the Vatican bureaucracy and its finances, but he went further, shaking up the church itself without changing its core doctrine.
Here is a collection of articles on Pope Francis
(With agency inputs)
Published – April 21, 2025 04:41 pm IST
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Pope Francis | 1936-2025
