Pope Francis holds the pastoral staff as he leaves after celebrating a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2014. (Andrew Medichini/AP)
Photos: The world reacts to the death of Pope Francis
Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.
A faithful holds a portrait of the late Pope Francis during Mass at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21, 2025. (Gustavo Garello/AP)Pope Francis bestows the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing from the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Mourners gather at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to pay respects to Pope Francis on April 21, 2025 in New York City. The Vatican announced that Pope Francis, 88, died on Monday a day after he appeared in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, greeting thousands of worshippers. (Alex Kent/Getty)Pope Francis leaves in a car at the end of his visit on Holy Thursday to the Regina Coeli penitentiary in Rome, April 17, 2025. (Andrew Medichini/AP)Pope Francis waves from the Popemobile on his way to attend the Via Crucis on Copacabana Beach during World Youth Day celebrations on July 26, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 1.5 million pilgrims are expected to join the pontiff for his visit to the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day celebrations which is running July 23-28. (Buda Mendes/Getty)
Pope Francis prays with priests at the end of a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican on Sept. 30, 2020 during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Filippo Monteforte/Getty-AFP)Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, July 29, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)Pope Francis waves to wellwishers as he leaves after a meeting at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital Maputo, Mozambique, Sept. 5, 2019. (Ben Curtis/AP)
Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Jan. 2, 2019. (Andrew Medichini/AP)Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President JD Vance, right, before bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025. (Vatican Media)Pope Francis meets with President Donald Trump, left, on the occasion of their private audience, at the Vatican, May 24, 2017. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
President Barack Obama and Pope Francis walk down the Colonnade before meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 23, 2015. (Andrew Harnik/AP)Pope Francis hugs 8-year-old Dominic Gondreau, who has cerebral palsy, after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 31, 2013. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)Pope Francis visits with inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia on Sept. 27, 2015. Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance that further divided it. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
A crowd lines the street as Pope Francis is driven along Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on Sept. 26, 2015. Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance that further divided it. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)Pope Francis stands at the main balcony of St. Peter’s basilica for the Urbi et Orbi message and blessing to the city and the world as part of Easter celebrations, at St Peter’s square in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Tiziana Fabi/Getty-AFP)Pope Francis enters the House Chamber before addressing a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 24, 2015. Francis was the first pontiff to address the U.S. Congress. (Zach Gibson/The New York Times)
Pope Francis tries to catch his cap as wind blows it away while arriving for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, March 13, 2024. (Andrew Medichini/AP)Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, in Rome, April 1, 2023. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, left, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, and faithful gathered outside the Apostolic Prefecture in Ulaanbaatar’s Kahn Uul district, Sept. 1, 2023. Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities. It’s the first time a pope has visited the Asian country and comes at a time when the Vatican’s relations with Mongolia’s two powerful neighbors, Russia and China, are once again strained. (Louise Delmotte/AP)
Christians arrive with a portrait of Pope Francis for a prayer ceremony at the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, in Lahore, Pakistan, April 21, 2025, following the announcement by the Vatican of the death of Pope Francis. (K.M. Chaudary/AP)Genali Nogales touches a painting of the late Pope Francis at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21, 2025. (Gustavo Garello/AP)Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2014. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
People light candles near a mural of the late Pope Francis during a vigil in Dili, East Timor, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP)Pope Francis is presented with a cake by Valentina Alazraki, correspondent for TeleVisa Univision, to celebrate his upcoming Dec. 17, 88th birthday, on the flight back to Rome at the end of his one-day visit to Ajaccio in the French island of Corsica, Dec. 15, 2024. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)Pope Francis prays near the lake in Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta, during his visit to Canada on July 26, 2022. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 88. (Ian Willms/The New York Times)
Pope Francis is greeted by well-wishers upon his arrival to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York on Sept. 25, 2015. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 88. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)Pope Francis stands with his hand on the ancient stones of the Western Wall before placing a note between them in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 88. (Rina Castelnuovo/The New York Times)Pope Francis waves to well-wishers as he arrives to celebrate an open-air Mass at the Plaza de la Revoluci—n in Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 20, 2015. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 88. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives at Independence Mall during his visit to Philadelphia on Sept. 26, 2015. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on April 21, 2025. He was 88. (Richard Perry/The New York Times)Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, May 10, 2024. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)A worshipper cries during Mass at the Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the Vatican’s announcement of Pope Francis’ death, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
