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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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