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Pope Francis: A shepherd who walked with the poor, even in death

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the popemobile after the Easter mass, at St Peter's square in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)

In life, he walked with the poor. In death, he remains among them.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and a tireless advocate for the marginalised, will take his final journey not amid the grandiosity typical of papal rites, but in the quiet dignity he modelled for more than a decade.

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