2025-04-22
18 分钟Yesterday on Easter Sunday,
Pope Francis graced the public with his presence outside the Vatican for the last time.
He appeared on the balcony at St. Peter's Basilica.
He blessed the crowd that had gathered there for Easter.
The Pope seemed very frail and still breathless.
Our colleague Margarita Stancari is based in Rome.
Pope Francis had a life-threatening bout with pneumonia recently.
He wished everybody happy Easter.
And then he also got on his Pope mobile and drove through the crowd.
And that was the last time we saw him in public.
So this morning, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died.
It was a shock because the Pope had appeared a few hours ago yesterday in public,
and so it was really not expected.
The Vatican said that the Pope had died at 7.35 this morning in his apartment in the Vatican.
The death of a Pope is a huge deal for the Catholic Church.
Popes serve until they die, so whenever Pope changes,
They can stay in their office for many years, even decades.
And so with the death of Pope Francis,
what's the burning question that you as a reporter and Catholics around the world will have?
Well, Pope Francis was in some ways a social justice warrior.