Pope Francis — born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina and the first non-European pope — died early Easter Monday at age 88, just weeks after returning to work from a lengthy hospitalization for pneumonia. The progressive pontiff’s death comes at a tumultuous time for the Catholic Church and the world, and raises questions about the legacy of this very …
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