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Death in the Vatican
by Laura Lee
(Copyright 04-23-2025) by Richard T. Ritenbaugh (Charlotte, North Carolina)   On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure in Vatican City. Though the pontiff had returned to work after a five-week hospital stay, he was still recovering from double pneumonia and related health complications. The day before his death, he made his last public appearance at St. Peter’s Basilica, offering a final Easter address (delivered by his aide, Archbishop Diego Ravelli) for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics. Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 266th leader of the Catholic Church, was the first Jesuit pope, the first from the […]