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A Pope Who Spoke for the Marginalized
Hindustan Times Ranchi
|April 22, 2025
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, who passed away on Easter Monday, took his regnal name from Saint Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century mystic who saw Christ in the poor, and lived up to the name.
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Italian origin who had fled their home country to escape Fascism, took stewardship of the Vatican at a sensitive time with the clergy coming under the shadow of multiple scandals and navigated the church through choppy waters.
This story is from the April 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Ranchi.
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