Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html
https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/people/people-5/
President Joe Biden awards Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest civilian honor in the United States, recognizing his dedication to peace, human rights, care for the poor, and environmental protection.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
Pope Francis[b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[c] 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death. He was the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
Pope Francis‘s last wish in his last public address on Easter Sunday?
End the war in Gaza!
I had posted this in the Happy Easter thread early this morning:
“Pope Francis, though he was out in public for a brief period and said a few words on Easter, sadly passed away this morning (12:35 AM CDT). May he rest in peace.”
I thought he was a very compassionate and humble man. I wonder if he overdid it yesterday though that may be irrelevant.
By WxFollower - April 21, 2025, 7:27 a.m.
Thanks for those consoling words, Larry!
The world was made MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better by this great man.
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-dead-papal-conclave-frontrunners-2035569
A key issue for the conclave will be Francis's handling of sexual abuse cases, which has divided Church leaders. "Most importantly, can the voters trust that the person they elect is not a sexual predator who could be exposed?" Lehner asked.
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I found that question/point to be either extremely ignorant or intentionally offensive.
This isn't denial by me of the Catholic Churches pedophile scandal or the MANY priests involved who committed horrible sexual crimes with minors or the horrible cover up by the Catholic Church.
However, to suggest that its so prevalent (and the standards for being a pope so minimal) that somebody that did this could be elected as a Pope is EXTREMELY offensive(or just ignorance).
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-dead-vatican-obituary-life-pictures-2033116
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-life-photos-family-birth-vatican-city-2035613
https://www.newsweek.com/how-francis-radically-reshaped-catholic-church-2035465
https://www.newsweek.com/roman-catholic-church-pope-explainer-vatican-city-2034701
One thing that I strongly disagreed with Pope Francis about was his views on a climate crisis.
As an environmentalist, I was in complete agreement on almost all of his environmental views outside of the climate crisis part.
The real environmental crisis's
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Started by metmike - April 10, 2019, 7:11 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/
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However, his understanding was only as good as his Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the United Nations/IPCC that provided the information to base his position on.
His constant claim that climate change was reducing the global food supply was in direct contrast to the real, GREENING world and massive contribution to more food production because of the role that CO2 plays in photosynthesis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Academy_of_Sciences
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"As-salaam Alaikum" or "peace be upon you," Pope Francis ventured in Arabic while talking to parishioners in Gaza earlier this year.
A short video released by the Vatican upon his death showed his intimate relationship with the Palestinian territory's tiny Christian community, many of whom he came to know by name.
During 18-months of war, he took to calling them nightly to check on their wellbeing.
"What did you eat today?" the Pope asks the local priests in the video, having switched to Italian. "The rest of the chicken from yesterday," replies Father Gabriel Romanelli.
Only a few hundred Christians remain in Gaza among the territory's almost entirely Muslim population of more than 2 million. Many have been living, as well as worshipping, at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City.
With the Pope's death they feel they have lost a dear friend.
"He used to call us daily during the war, on the black days under the bombing - on the days when people were killed and injured," Father Romanelli said.
"Sometimes, we didn't have a phone connection for hours and the Pope with all of his responsibilities would try to reach us."
George Anton, a local Catholic, is the emergency coordinator in the Holy Family church. He told me that shock left him virtually speechless the first time he spoke to the Pope but that he ended up talking to him regularly on video calls.
He explained to the pontiff how he had lost his home and relatives.
"He was all the time blessing me and he was totally understanding our situation and he always encouraged us to be strong," Mr Anton said. "And he asked 'What can I do for you? What more can I do for you'?"
The Gazan Christians say they will now miss a great source of comfort and support.
"We felt like 'Oh my God, we're like orphans now'," Mr Anton said.
"There will be no calls from the Pope, we will not hear this voice. We will not hear his sense of humour. You know Pope Francis has a special relation with Gaza, and with every one of us."
Pope Francis' use of the term "white flag" while speaking in an interview about the war in Ukraine has raised questions, which the Vatican press office tried to explain. The pope's hope "is for a diplomatic solution for a just and lasting peace," said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.
Justin McLellan
March 10, 2024
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Encouraging negotiations to end Russia's war on Ukraine, Pope Francis called for the warring sides to have the "courage of the white flag," a term usually associated with surrender.
Asked in an interview whether Ukraine should surrender and if doing so would legitimize the actions of the stronger power, the pope said that "the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates."
Popes Francis and John Paul II were easily the greatest popes of my lifetime from a compassion and humility perspective.
Did y’all realize that JP2 started out as pope as only a relative mere lad of 58?