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Pope Francis died April 21, 2025. See below for full coverage from the Catholic Review, Catholic News Service and OSV News.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Given the late Pope Francis’ care and concern for the poor, a representative group of them has been formally invited to welcome his casket to Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major for burial.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
As they entered the Vatican to participate in a series of meetings leading up to the election of Pope Francis’ successor, several cardinals spoke to the media, emphasizing that they are still mourning the Argentine pontiff — not yet choosing his successor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis must be remembered for his deep Marian piety. In speaking to a group of young people in Rome on June 29, 2014 — the Solemnity of St. Peter and Paul — he famously said: “A Christian without the Madonna is an orphan.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican
Pope Francis’ funeral is scheduled for April 26 at 10 a.m. Rome time (4 a.m. EDT in Baltimore) in St. Peter’s Square, with burial to follow at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
After the casket bearing Pope Francis’ body was placed in St. Peter’s Basilica, tens of thousands of mourners lined up to pay their respects.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The pontificate of Pope Francis did not result in breakthrough theological agreements with other Christians, but huge strides were made in personal relations and practical cooperation.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
Asserting that the Catholic Church needed the gifts and experiences of women, Pope Francis appointed several women to top positions in the Roman Curia, including the first female prefect of a major dicastery, and worked to ensure their contributions were recognized in parishes and dioceses around the world.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News
When Pope Francis chose the small Italian island of Lampedusa as the destination for his first trip outside Rome after his election, he signaled to the world that migration would be a defining issue of his pontificate.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis
The legacy of Pope Francis is large and complex, with plenty of high points. But part of it is ambiguity and verbal confusion on matters of church doctrine, pointing to a need for clarification by whoever succeeds Francis on the chair of Peter.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
As the pope of the peripheries, Pope Francis brought the heart, mind and soul of the Catholic Church in Latin America from what he called the “ends of the earth” to the center of Christendom.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Sports, World News
Upon Pope Francis’ passing, San Lorenzo issued a poignant statement reflecting on his lifelong bond with the club: “His passion for San Lorenzo always moved us deeply, and unites us in constant prayer for his soul.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News
The impact of Pope Francis’ papacy upon Catholic marriage and family life will be extensively studied, debated and commentated upon in the weeks following his death on April 21.
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