India, April 21 -- 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. 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. His papacy was radical in many ways, though not radical enough for many who expected the first pope from South America to steer the Vatican away from many of its traditional stances. However, Pope Francis did enough to ril...
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