Pope Francis, promoter of more compassionate church, dies at 88

Pope Francis, which encouraged Catholics to cover more compassionate views on many issues, but found it difficult to close the book on the abuse of the past. He was 88 years old.

Francis died in Rome at 7 o’clock. In Rome 35, the Vatican said in a statement. He was hospitalized in Rome in mid-February with the bronchitis, who was making pneumonia in the two lungs. Liter of breathing and other medical challenges he had faced. On Sunday, he met with US Vice President JD Vance.

The spiritual leader of the world1.4 Billion CatholicsSince March 2013, Francisco greeted Argentina, making her first Pope by America, as well as the first Jesuit to keep the position. He became a patriarch after the elimination of Benedict XVI and almost immediately restore Catholicism with his easy behavior, which unlike his predecessor.

In the event that Benedict was considered a guardian of Orthodox doctrine, more comfortable books than the crowds, Francis reached as frequent, humble grandfather. He captivated many liberal non-Catholic people, with his attention to poverty and human suffering, and a change of climate changes a moral problem to be resolved. Rejecting the peoples and privileges of his position, he avoided his palace housing in favor of the Vatican Guest.

A numberThe early signAbout how Francisco, Galian, when he washed the legs of dozens of prisoners, including young women in the youth prison in Rome. It broke only the long papal tradition of washing priests.

And at his first press conference, as a Pope, when they asked Gay men who served priests, his predecessor was strongly opposed. Francosanswered“If someone is gay and he is looking for the Lord and has good will, who did I judge?”

But confronted with polarized clergy and the Vatican Bureaucracy, Francis struggled to live with preliminary expectations that he will fully practice the abuse of the child’s abuse.

He eliminated the highest level of privacy, which was used to protect pedophiles inside the Church, but was largely unable to meet the claims of victims for accountability. In 2018, in the context of the new wave of charges of sexual violence by priests, FrancisTo chargesThat he had ignored the 2013 warnings from the US cardinal Todore Mardhark presumably abuse.

He struggles hard to bring more transparencyVatican Finance:And he wondered the Vatican, the Vatican administration, listen more carefully to the ideas of distant bishops. Another Francis Heritage is the college of cardinals, the body that chooses the next Pope. His changes make it more likely that the candidate of Asia or Africa can be selected.

The secret process of selecting a new Pope was studied in the film 2024SleepIn which Ralph Fiennes, Cardinal Controls the Vatican elections in the face of liberal and conservative candidates.

The son of an accountant

Pope Francis was born on December 17, 1936 in a diligent Bouenos Aires district,one of the five childrenFrom immigrants from Italy. His father, Mario, worked as an accountant, and his mother, former Regina Sivori, was a housewife.

In his official biography, he said that he was affected by his motherly grandmother, who defended the church of fascism and his siblings and siblings and siblings about the life of the saints. He warned him about surpluses of capitalism, teaching him that “the cemeteries have no pockets.”

Bergoglio began working at a storage factory where the father was engaged in accounts and trained as a chemical technician.

When he was 21 years old, his right Tonke had to be removed because of the infection. From the moment of recovery, he entered the seminary and joined the Jesuit’s command, which works within the name of the poor and social justice inside the Catholic Church.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said to Argentinean radio station in 2012. But I knew I had to become a priest. “

In 1963, he received a Philosophy of Philosophy from the St. Joseph St. Joseph Hog Joseph of Argentina, where he continued to study theology.

After his settlement in 1969 and a brief assignment in Spain, Bergoglio returned to Buenos Aires as the head of the Jesuits of all Jesuits in the neighboring Uruguay. His tenure coincided with one of the most impudent heads of Argentinean history, the 1970s, when military dictatorship was brutally campaigning against left political opponents.

Jesuits also parted, and Bergoglio angered activists both left and rightHe later calledhis “rapid form of authoritarian and decisions.” In 1990, Jesuit’s leadership effectively evicted Cordoba, about 400 miles (650 km) from the capital, where he lived with people.

It was “during the great internal crisis,” he said, and he emerged from his exile, with a humble approach to leadership.

Bergogloy was named the leader of the Bishop of Bishop and Argentina in 1992 later that decade. In 2001, Pope John Paul II made him cardinal. It is aware that the Argentines collect funds to go to Rome to celebrate his appointment, instead of Bergoglio, he urged them to dedicate them to the poor.

Hemade a similar requestIn 2013, when

Because Jesuitits are discouraged by becoming a bishop. Let alone carpets. His choice was in the fifth stage of the ballots, wasbe watchedAs a desire to have a papal bureaucracy as a foreign reform.

Historically, Popes has used their choice of name to announce their own values. He was a knot to St. Francis, the 13th century Friar, who left family wealth to hug poverty.

“How would I love the poor and for the poor,” he said after the election?

In 2015, during the US trip, he challenged the legislators to win poverty in the Wealth and the UN General Assembly.condemnThe world economy is “guided only by the ambitions of wealth and power.”

After he opened Instant In 2016, Francis earned 1 million followers in 12 hours.

To the surprise of 2020 visit the Vatican Conference, he urged the head of the International Monetary Fund and a number of finance ministers to help relieve the burden of struggle for calling for a new financial architecture.

In 2021, the Pope became the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to visit Iraq. An inter-religious dialogue has visited churches, who have been visited by the State Islamic extremists and fulfilled the dream of Pope John Paul, praying to the birthplace of tradition, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Out of clump

With a fist of French practice, which he won the legionnaire of fans, filled the Saint Peter Square during the audience, they brought hot water twice in 2024. He would quickly clarify his word, noting that he condemned all wars.

Months later, Francisco apologized after it was reported that use the insulting term, citing the gay who wanted priests. The incident highlighted the continuous pregnancy of the Church and LGBTK community, even under his grandfather.

Easter in 2024, PopegatherFrom the months of breathing to the Mass to preside the mass in St. Peter Square, prayer for peace. He specifically note about the difficult situation of civilians in Gaza, at the same time marking Syria, Syria, Roging ethnic minority in Myanmar, migrants and victims of human trafficking.

“Let’s not release the logic and reward of weapons,” he said. “Peace is never done with weapons, but with stretched hands and open hearts.”

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