How Pope Francis Changed the Catholic Church
Church bells rang out across the world on Monday to mark the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88.
Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau chief at The New York Times, discusses the pope's push to change the church, his bitter clashes with traditionalists, and what his papacy meant to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
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