Pope Francis has died at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he recovered from a five-week hospitalization for double pneumonia. History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change. The pope recently spent 38 days in a hospital for a respiratory crisis in the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy. He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour through a cheering crowd in St. Peter’s Square.
Maria Teresa Delgado holds a portrait of the late Pope Francis during Mass at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello) From left, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and his brother Oscar, posing for a photo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Center image: Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a teenager.Right Image: Argentine seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio smiles for a portrait in 1966 at the El Salvador school where he taught literature and psychology, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP images) (FILE) – Vatican announces Death of Pope Francis aged 88 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – JULY 26: Pope Francis waves from the Popemobile on his way to attend the Via Crucis on Copacabana Beach during World Youth Day celebrations on July 26, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 1.5 million pilgrims are expected to join the pontiff for his visit to the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day celebrations which is running July 23-28. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) (FILE) – Vatican announces Death of Pope Francis aged 88 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – JULY 25: Pope Francis arrives for celebrate Mass at Copacabana beach on July 25, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 1.5 million pilgrims are expected to join the pontiff for his visit to the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day celebrations. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) Pope Francis greets the faithful as he holds Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square on April 20, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis is attending the Holy Week for his second time as a Pontiff. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) FILE – Pope Francis prays as he holds an envelope before placing it in on of the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, in the old city of Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool, file) Pope Francis waves as he leaves after he celebrated the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a mass for the closing of of a two-week synod on family issues, in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) FILE – Pope Francis passes a portrait of himself as he arrives to meet youths in Santo Tomas University in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) FILE – Pope Francis listens to applause before addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, making history as the first pontiff to do so, on Sept. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file) Thousands of people converge on the West Lawn of the Capitol to watch a live stream of Pope Francis’s visit with Congress on in 2015. He then made a balcony appearance.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) An unidentified child, who was carried out from the crowd to meet Pope Francis, reaches out to touch the Pontiff’s face during a parade on his way to celebrate Sunday Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Pope Francis is in Philadelphia for the last leg of his six-day visit to the United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Pope Francis meets with Gerard Gubatan of Brooklyn during his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sept. 24, 2015 in New York City. The Pope is on his first trip to the United States, visiting Washington, DC, New York and Philadelphia. (Photo by Craig Ruttle-Pool/Getty Images) FILE – Pope Francis waves to local residents as he drives to St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file) Pope Francis arrives in the popemobile to Viktor Manuel Reyna stadium, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. Francis is celebrating Mexico’s Indians on Monday with a visit to Chiapas state, a center of indigenous culture, where he presided over a Mass in three native languages thanks to a new Vatican decree approving their use in liturgy. The visit is also aimed at boosting the faith in the least Catholic state in Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) FILE – Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file) TOPSHOTS Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in St Peter’s square at the Vatican on Sept. 18, 2013 . AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: FILE – Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file) FILE – Flanked by Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela, right, and first lady Lorena Castillo, Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file) FILE – Pope Francis waves to wellwishers as he leaves after a meeting at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital Maputo, Mozambique Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) (FILE) – Vatican announces Death of Pope Francis aged 88 TOPSHOT – Pope Francis prays with priests at the end of a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican on Sept. 30, 2020 during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP) (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images) Pope Francis poses for photos with participants into his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) — STANDALONE PHOTO FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH YEAREND REVIEWS — Pope Francis prays during a visit to a cemetery at a former residential school in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis’s first apology in Canada to Indigenous people for the abuse they suffered at residential schools will be made in an intimate setting, at the Ermineskin Cree Nation, the site of one of the 130 schools that were once spread across most of Canada. (Ian Willms/The New York Times) FILE – Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file) (FILE) – Vatican announces Death of Pope Francis aged 88 TOPSHOT – Pope Francis (C, in wheelchair) is welcomed during his arrival at SoekarnoHatta International Airport in Jakarta on Sept. 3, 2024. Pope Francis arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Sept. 3 for the first stop of a four-nation tour in the Asia-Pacific that will be the longest of the 87-year-old’s papacy, according to an AFP reporter travelling with him. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images) Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Catholics mourn the passing of Pope Francis during a mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Monday, April 21, 2025. The Latin American pope, who was 88 and made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday, was beloved by many for his humility and inclusiveness but was seen as controversial by some conservatives. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Read More Details
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