Rome – Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made his mission change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, died at the age of 88. The Vatican said that Francis died only after 7:30 am local time on Monday, the day after he surprised many when he surprised many appearing outside the Vatican Easter Sunday to say hello to the friendly.
According to the Vatican, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camenerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, Formally Announced Francis' Death on Monday, Saying: “At 7:35 This Morning, The Bishop of Rome, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis of the Father Life Was.
In recent years, Francis has experienced a number of health problems, including two abdomen operation and a few serious respiratory infections. He spent Five weeks in hospital In February and March 2025 with a bronchitis that turned into pneumonia in both lungs. He noted 12th anniversary of his papacy from his hospital room.
The pontiff was pushed into a wheelchair into the interview room In its Vatican's residence With CBS News' Norah O'Donnell in April 2024. But while he had difficulties An hour's conversation About his prayer for termination Wars in gas and Ukraine. However, in the later speeches, the Pontiff clearly fought for breathing when he made the scheduled remarks.
After the election of his Catholic Cardinals in 2013, Francis expressed a tone to the Pope's first official acts, abolishing the centuries-old tradition, just asking for help.
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Usually, after the election of a new pope, they come out and bless the masses collected on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. But when Francis was elected, he came out and first asked the believers bless and pray for him.
“I want to ask you a service,” he said. “Before the bishop bless people, I ask you to pray to the Lord to bless me.”
This may seem like a subtle change, but together with his acquaintance greetings and farewell to the Italian crowd that day, this set the tone of his whole papacy. Francis made it clear that he called himself a pilgrim's brother, not as an imperial dad. He did not want to continue to conduct a one -sided monologue from the highest position in the Catholic Church, but a dialogue.
As a pope, a man who was previously known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio decided to name himself after Francis Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, known for his simplicity and humanity.
The first pope from the new world, born and raised in Argentina, said he wants “poor church” and the one that “includes excluded.”
He attached an example, deciding to live in the room 201 in Santa -Martart – a small Vatican hotel, which is commonly used to visit priests – and not in lush papal apartments used by its predecessors. Francis wore his own bag and walked through Rome to buy his own pair of glasses.
His desire to turn to ordinary people was sent to the storage of the bulletproof “path”.
“I can't welcome people from the inside of Sardin,” Francis explained, “even when it is made of glass.”
He became one of the most popular public figures in the world, regularly advocating silent and presenters on the example – whether it will dine with the homeless, wash the feet of prisoners or providing a house in Italy for migrants and refugees that escape from war or economic instability.
Francis went against consumer and individualism, and he insisted that “unjust economic structures” were human rights violations.
He also pushed progress in the fight against climate change, even publishing encyclicals – an official letter from himself to Catholic leaders around the world. And he reformed Curia – the central administration of the church – allowing secular men and women to manage the Vatican offices, positions historically set aside for cardinals and bishops.
Francis continued to hold his public prayers during the closure of the Coronavirus, but with the banned crowds “Pope to the people” remained delivering his messages to the empty Saint Peter.
Not spending time after receiving his vaccine, Francis made a courage for the first time in history Papal visit to IraqDespite the great safety risks. In Mosul, where ISIS militants once smashed churches, Pope Francis prayed to them.
A few months later, his health finally caught up with him. He spent 10 days at the Roman Hospital In July 2021, recovering after the planned surgery to remove part of the colon. It was the first time he was hospitalized after he was called the Pope.
In 2022, a torn knee ligament made Francis finally slowed down. He used a wheelchair and canceled as a Vatican resign. If Benedict diedFrancis presided His funeral, for the first time in modern history, the Pope laid his predecessor to rest.
Over the course of time, Francis began to determine the topic he did not choose: a wave of scandals with clerical sexual abuses that reached the highest levels of the Catholic Church. He was first charged with a slow reaction to the crisis.
Then he tried to take control of the story, in particular, causing older clerics from all over the world to the Vatican in early 2019. From this meeting new Vatican laws on sexual cruel treatment came, and a mandate to make each diocese a clear reporting process. Francis also abolished the confidentiality of the highest level of the “papal mystery”, which has embraced the crisis of sexual abuse in another systematic secrecy plan.
His diplomatic skill was shown when he played a key role In restoring relations between the US and its ten -year enemies in Cuba.
Francis's simple style was the product of its modest. He was born in 1936 by an Italian railway worker and a housewife in Buenos -Aires, Argentina. In his youth, he lost some of the lungs to the infection. He worked on various main tasks and studied chemistry.
After he was ordained as a priest at the age of 32, he visited the slum of Buenos -Aires and cared for the bad trait of the city -this is a feature of its ministry.
During the press conference on board flight through the years, he seemed to open space for homosexuals in the church, with a single, very symbolic phrase: “Who am I to judge?” he asked When the reporter fired him with the issue of LGBTC's rights.
But although he may have received extensive merit for changing the tone of the church when it comes to acceptance, exercises and policy of the church.
Despite the delaying fire from Catholic conservatives for being too liberal, Francis confirmed the long -standing doctrines of the church Confrontation of same -sex marriageand almost everything else: from the birth control to Bringing women.
Francis claimed that in 2013 he brought only a small bag to the papal conclave, which saw him chosen because he was expected to return home to Argentina.
Instead, neither their lives nor the papas were the same.
