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RELIGION | POPE FRANCIS, CHAMPION OF THE MARGINALIZED, DIES AT 88

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 21, 2025 - In a somber announcement that reverberated through the Vatican's ancient corridors and beyond, Pope Francis, the revolutionary Argentine who redefined the modern papacy through his embrace of the dispossessed, died Monday morning at 88, just one day after appearing before thousands at Easter celebrations.

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Pope Francis poses for a picture with a group of nuns during the general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Aug. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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