Remembering Pope Francis; A Humble Leader

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Let’s honor the extraordinary life of Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a trailblazer who reshaped the Catholic Church with his boundless humility and heart for the marginalized. In this video, we trace his journey from a Buenos Aires chemist and nightclub bouncer to the first Jesuit, first Latin American, and first non-European pope in over 1,200 years, elected on March 13, 2013. Despite losing part of a lung at 21 and battling double pneumonia in February 2025, Francis led with vigor until his death at 88 on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at 7:35 a.m. in Casa Santa Marta, just hours after greeting crowds from St. Peter’s Basilica. His final days included a notable April 18 meeting with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.

Francis’ legacy is seismic: his 2015 encyclical *Laudato Si’* tied faith to environmental justice, while *Amoris Laetitia* (2016) softened stances on divorced Catholics. He backed same-sex civil unions in 2020, saying, “They have a right to a family,” and blessed same-sex couples in 2023, sparking both praise and pushback. His fight against clergy abuse led to the 2019 *Vos Estis Lux Mundi*, holding bishops accountable, and apologies for historical wrongs, like Canada’s Indigenous “cultural genocide” in 2022. A champion of the poor, he lived simply—cooking his own meals, riding buses—and appointed 140+ non-European cardinals to globalize the Church. Though conservatives like Cardinal Raymond Burke clashed over his reforms, fans on X called him “the people’s pope” Join us to celebrate a leader who dared to dream of a “poor Church for the poor” and left a 1.4-billion-strong flock forever changed. Share your favorite Francis moment below!

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