Pope Francis died at the age of 88

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Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion catholics, died at the age of 88, and the Vatican announced after returning home after a double pneumonia week later a week.

In the last public appearance of Sunday, he greeted the loyalty to wish them a happy Easter and also had a short viewer with US vice president JD Vance.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an old Vatican, said the Pope passed on Monday, 7.35.

“Dear brothers and sisters, I must declare the death of Holy Father Francis,” he said. “Francis returned to the father’s house.”

The Argentine Cassar was hospitalized in February and had the latest treatment of a number of respiratory problems. Since he returned to the Vatican in late March, St. Peterin Bailica and Thursday made a few times a few times a few times, including a prison, but he looked weak and weak and struggled to speak.

Francis, a sexual exploitation scandals and a 2000-year-old organization in Helm, who has been in Helm for 12 years, was struck, a 2000-year-old organization tried to reform and revive financial status The church and his leaders struggled to adapt to the modern world.

Farrell, Monday’s Paphif “Temporary, courage and universal love, especially the poorest and most poorest and most of the most poorest and most marginalization, he said.

The end of Francis’s papacy, a violent competition for the role, is expected to face conservative cardinals for those who want to continue to make conservative cardinals become more intensive.

136 Catholic Cardinals under 80 are currently appointed by most of them Francis He himself – the papa’s death will be eligible to vote in a papal, which should be held in two to three weeks.

Francis’s death will shade on top An ongoing anniversary of the Catholic ChurchAnnual forgiveness of a holy forgiveness every 25 years, millions of pilgrims to Rome are considered critical to fill the Vatican’s exhausted coffins.

The first non-Europe to lead the church for the eighth century, Francis lost the Pope Emeritus in 2013, Pope Emeritus lost the shock of Pope XVI Death in December 2022.

A Jesuit made an unusable training, who accused the pus of traditionally accusing a coarse global consultation to obey the chart of the church.

The final 51-page document recommended women’s presence more and linked people to the church life and decision.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires in 1936, Francis, Argentina was chosen as Pope as a priest, archbishop and cardinal. During this period, the homeland lived until the period of intensive political and economic difficulty, including a rule with a cruel military dictatorship.

In his papacy, Francis – worked for those who read chemistry and began to be the priest – wanted to do Catholic church It is more compassionate and attractive with modern problems, including climate change and social justice.

In 2015, an encyclist – a large church policy document – to fight global warming. He hugged LGBT + Catholics and held many meetings with them. This year became the first sitting Pope to publish itself autobiography.

He expressed a warm peace defender, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. During Israel’s last year in Gaza, Hamas attacked Israel, 2023, 2023, 2023 in 2023, Francis He spoke at night with Palestinian Christians Shelter in the Catholic Church.

He also fleeing war and persecution and fleeing the war and persecution or the opportunity to take the opportunity to tighten the countries of the United States and European relations.

In February, Francis wrote a letter to the bishops who are sad in their plans Mass deportation of migrants by President Donald Trump’s leadership.

He wrote the “rightly formed conscience” that “the crime should express the illegal status of some migrants weird or clearly.”

However, Francis’s church to make a more inclusive, fight modern issues and the usual Catholics attempt to vote more in the future of the church rageated conservativesHe accuses his traditional teachings of the church with the sensitive issues of individual morality.

These painful doctrinal battles are playing even clearly and are likely to ripple with the hand to choose Francis’s success.

In 2023, an anonymous letter spread in the Vatican city called the “Disaster” papacy in the Vatican.

The author then appeared to be the late Cardinal George Pell once Francis’s financial issues. In the spectator magazine, the counter-perpetrated, Pell called Francis Sinod to address Catholic loyalty all over the world “Poisonous nightmare“.

Francis’s successor will also have to fight the Vatican’s dance and a heavy tension finance.