Pope Francis a ‘distinctive' pope who will be ‘remembered for years'
Pope Francis died from a stroke and irreversible heart failure, the Vatican has revealed, as news of the pontiff's passing in the early hours of Easter Monday morning prompts an outpouring of tributes.
The Pope died aged 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
'[He was] also a pope who would like to be remembered as an exemplar of the second Vatican council … that tried to bring Catholicism into the engagement with the modern world.'
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