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Pope Francis, the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium, died Monday. He was 88.

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Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 this morning, the ...