2025-04-22
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I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Tuesday, April 22nd.
Here's what we're covering.
From Vatican City to the Philippines to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
mourners have turned out to honor Pope Francis, who died yesterday at 88.
The Vatican announced yesterday that his cause of death was a stroke,
and officials have now begun the preparations for the funeral of the Catholic leader.
Francis was known for rejecting some of the pageantry that came with being Pope,
preferring a more modest lifestyle.
He lived in a Vatican apartment instead of the usual palace and ate his meals at a cafeteria.
And before his death,
he rewrote some of the rules around papal funerals to make them less of an elaborate spectacle.
For example, his body will not be put on a raised pedestal but laid in a simple coffin.
On Saturday morning,