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Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with the media at the Pope VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Speaking of the moment of his election and his conversation with his friend, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, in the Sistine Chapel as the votes were going his way. “When things were looking dangerous, he encouraged me. And when the votes reached two-thirds, there was the usual applause, because the pope had been elected. And he gave me a hug and a kiss and said: ‘Don't forget the poor!’ And those words came to me: the poor, the poor. Then, right away, thinking of the poor, I thought of Francis of Assisi. Then I thought of all the wars, as the votes were still being counted, till the end. Francis is also the man of peace. That is how the name came into my heart: Francis of Assisi. … How I would like a Church which is poor and for the poor!” (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

‘Who am I to judge?’ Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style

Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style. When Francis met Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI for the first time after being elected in 2013, he said, “We are brothers!”
 
Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

Pope Francis reached out to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, but also drew unusual opposition

 
Pope Francis attends a prayer on the occasion of the World Day of the Creation's care in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Francis changed church policy on the death penalty and nuclear weapons but upheld it on abortion

 
In this image released by Vatican media on Monday, April 21, 2025, Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell, second from left, flanked by, from left, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Substitute for the Secretariat of State, Cardinal Edgar PeÒa Parra, and Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Archbisop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, announces the death of Pope Francis at the Vatican. (Vatican Media via AP)

Read the announcement of the death of Pope Francis

 
Pope Francis speaks to journalists during the papal flight direct to Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. (Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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FILE - James Earl Jones poses with his honorary Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen has died at age 93, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93

 
This photograph released by the CIA on behalf of the family of former CIA officer Edward B. Johnson shows Johnson, right, receiving the CIA's Intelligence Star from John N. McMahon, then the agency's deputy director for operations, in May 1980. Edward B. Johnson, who as a Central Intelligence Agency officer traveled into Iran with a colleague to rescue six American diplomats who fled the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, has died, the CIA confirmed on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. He was 81. (Family of Edward B. Johnson/CIA via AP)

Edward B. Johnson, the second CIA officer in Iran for the ‘Argo’ rescue mission, dies at 81

 
FILE - Walt Ehmer, president and CEO of Waffle House, speaks on the phone after landing at the Wilmington airport with an emergency response team in Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer has died at age 58

 
FILE - The Blue Mink pop group including Roger Cook, wearing hat, Madeline Bell, left, and bass player Herbie Flowers, second right, leaving London for Los Angeles, and the start of a two week tour on July 1973. Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed and other music legends in a decades-long career, has died at 86. (PA via AP, File)

Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Lou Reed and others, dies at 86

 
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney stops to pay his respects to former Clemson player Diondre Overton while walking to the stadium before an NCAA college football game against Appalachian State, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)

Former Clemson receiver Diondre Overton, member of 2 national title teams, dies at 26

 

Former Liverpool captain Ron Yeats dies at age 86

 
FILE - North Carolina state Rep. Kelly Alexander Jr., a Mecklenburg County Democrat, presents his proposal for a constitutional amendment that would repeal an unenforced voter literacy test requirement during a House committee meeting at the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., on March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

North Carolina state Rep. Kelly Alexander Jr. dies at 75

 
FILE - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes sits for a portrait at home in Los Angeles, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Sergio Mendes, Grammy-winning Brazilian music legend, dies at 83

 
FILE - Rich Homie Quan attends the arrivals at VH1's Hip Hop Honors at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on Monday, July 11, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)

Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper known for trap jams like ‘Type of Way,’ dies at 33

 

Chilean tennis legend Luis Ayala dies at age 91

 

Noel Parmentel Jr., a literary gadfly with some famous friends, dies at 98

 
Attorney Ernest Morial, right, speaks on the telephone as his wife, Sybil, looks on after he won an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, in New Orleans, Nov. 5, 1967. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)

Civil rights activist Sybil Morial, wife of New Orleans’ first Black mayor, dead at 91

 
FILE - Rice coach Wayne Graham sits in the dugout during a game against Texas A&M in Houston, April 5, 2016. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Wayne Graham, who built Rice into a national power in baseball, dies at 88

 
FILE - James Darren — left, one of the stars of the film For Those Who Think Young — chats with Nancy Sinatra, centre, and Claudia Martin about their film debuts, August 13, 1963. (AP Photo, File)

James Darren, ‘Gidget’ teen idol, singer and director, dies at 88

 
FILE - Actor Ralph Bellamy is interviewed by Associated Press special writer Linda Deutsch during the "Twilight Zone" trial in Los Angeles, Calif., March 9, 1987. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut, File)

Linda Deutsch, AP trial writer who had a front row seat to courtroom history, dies at 80

 
FILE - Ivory Coast's Souleymane Bamba, front, is challenged by Mali's Tidiane Cheick Diabate during their African Cup of Nations semi final soccer match at Stade de L'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Former Cardiff and Ivory Coast soccer player Sol Bamba dies aged 39

 
FILE - DJ Fatman Scoop arrives at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Hip-hop artist Fatman Scoop dies at 56 after collapsing on stage in Connecticut

 
FILE - Columbus Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau (13) awaits the face-off during an NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators, Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster, file)

Johnny Gaudreau put family first, never forgot South Jersey roots even as NHL career blossomed

 
FILE - Unted States' Johnny Gaudreau, right, challenges for a puck with Latvia's Janis Jaks during the preliminary round match between Latvia and United States at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file)

Known as ‘Johnny Hockey,’ Johnny Gaudreau was an NHL All-Star and a top U.S. player internationally

 
FILE - Columbus Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau looks on during an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)

Reactions to the deaths of NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew Gaudreau

 
FILE - Columbus Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau plays during an NHL hockey game, Jan. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and brother killed when bicycles hit by car on eve of sister’s wedding

 
FILE - New Zealand Maori King, Kiingi Tuheitia, from left, reacts with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at Turangawaewae Marae, Hamilton, New Zealand, Nov. 8, 2015. (David Rowland/Pool Photo via the AP, File)

New Zealand’s Māori King dies after 18-year reign

 
FILE - Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes and Noble, arrives at a book store in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dead at 83

 

Sid ‘Vicious’ Eudy, pro wrestling star in 1990s, dies at 63

 

Former North Dakota federal prosecutor who handled Peltier, Medina shootout cases dies

 
FILE - Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson loos around before the start of an exhibition soccer match between Liverpool Legends and Ajax Legends at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday March 23, 2024. Eriksson the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach, has died. He was 76, it was announced on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)

Reaction to the death of former England soccer manager Sven-Göran Eriksson

 
FILE - England's manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, left and player David Beckham are photographed during a training session, in Manchester, England, June 1, 2006. Eriksson the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach, has died. He was 76, it was announced on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP, File)

Sven-Goran Eriksson, Swedish soccer coach who was first foreigner to lead England team, dies at 76

 
FILE 0 Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach Joe D'Alessandris looks on prior to the AFC Championship NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs, Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach Joe D’Alessandris dies at age 70

 
FILE - Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss is seen on April 25, 1990 in Lebanon. (AP Photo, File)

Former five-time Lebanese prime minister Salim Hoss dies at 94

 
FILE - Club Brugge's coach Christoph Daum ahead of their Europa League Group H match at Ljudski Vrt stadium in Maribor, Slovenia, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Fearless German soccer coach Christoph Daum dies after career of highs and lows

 
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