“Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta,” the Vatican said in a statement posted on X.
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Pope Francis dies at 88: What happens next in the Vatican
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Pope Francis leaves a complex, divided legacy – POLITICO
Just weeks before he died, Pope Francis was doing what he does best: infuriating conservatives.
In an extraordinary intervention in mid-February, the pope initiated a head-on clash with the new U.S. administration, slamming President Donald Trump’s plans to deport millions of…
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Pope Francis’ last public appearance on Easter Sunday
Pope Francis’s last public appearance was for an Easter Sunday blessing at the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square.
It had been unknown at the time if the pontiff would join the service following his discharge from hospital last month, after five weeks of treatment for an infection that led to double…
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What comes now after the death of Pope Francis?
ReutersPope Francis has died at the age of 88, after 12 years as spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
His death has set in motion the centuries-old process of electing a new Pope.
What does the Pope do?
The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church. Roman Catholics believe he represents a…
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The life and legacy of Pope Francis
The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool takes us through the life of Pope Frances, and the challenges he faced as pontiff.
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Pope from Latin America who changed Catholic Church
APHis ascension to the papacy heralded many firsts.
Francis was the first Pope from the Americas or the Southern Hemisphere. Not since Syrian-born Gregory III died in 741 had there been a non-European Bishop of Rome.
He was also the first Jesuit to be elected to the throne of St Peter – Jesuits…
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Pope Francis dead at 88 – POLITICO
On gender, the pontiff hewed closer to tradition in repeatedly ruling out ordaining female priests or deacons — though he named numerous women to roles in the Vatican, including appointing the first woman to head a major department.
He said women who had undergone an abortion should be…
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Pope Francis dies at 88, the Vatican says
The pontiff had recently had a lengthy stay in a Rome hospital suffering from double pneumonia.
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Read, think, act: Meet three booksellers guiding people through the climate crisis
“Books are a comfort, they are a way of seeing things differently,” says Victoria Bonner, co-owner of Hold Fast bookshop in Leeds.
Her bookshop is on a boat – a former 1946 Yorkshire coal barge, to be precise. On the same stretch of waterway where it used to ferry coal, the hull…
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At least 12 killed in fresh US air strikes on Yemen’s capital, Houthi rebel group says
At least 12 people have been killed and 30 others wounded in a US air strike on Yemen’s capital, the Houthis rebels have said.
The deaths mark the latest in Washington’s intensified campaign of strikes targeting the Iran-backed rebels.
The US military’s Central Command declined to…
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