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VATICAN OBIT POPE FRANCIS LGBTQ

Pope Francis pauses during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

VATICAN GENERAL AUDIENCE

epa03892443 Pope Francis greets the faithful during the General Audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, 02 October 2013. (KEYSTONE/EPA/FRUSTACI)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS ERSTE GENERALAUDIENZ

Pope Francis touches his cross as he is driven through the crowd during his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR

Pope Francis, Time magazine's 2013 Person of the Year, is seen an undated photo of the magazine cover provided by Time, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Time said the Catholic church's new leader has changed the perception of his organization in an extraordinary way in a short time. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS

Pope Francis prepares to recite the Angelus noon prayer from his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

This undated photo released by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis, at the Vatican. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

VATICAN EASTER MASS

epa12042354 Pope Francis speaks during the Urbi et Orbi blessing following the Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square, in Vatican City, 20 April 2025. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

VATICAN EASTER MASS

epa12042480 Pope Francis during the Urbi et Orbi blessing following the Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square, in Vatican City, 20 April 2025. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing 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. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

KEYPIX - VATICAN EASTER MASS

epa12042369 Pope Francis during the Urbi et Orbi blessing following the Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square, in Vatican City, 20 April 2025. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

VATICAN EASTER MASS

epa12042360 Pope Francis greets the faithful after the Urbi et Orbi blessing following the Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square, in Vatican City, 20 April 2025. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

KEYPIX - VATICAN EASTER MASS

epa12042479 Pope Francis greets the faithful after the Urbi et Orbi blessing following the Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square, in Vatican City, 20 April 2025. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

VATICAN POPE FRANCIS

epa12045993 A handout photo made available by Vatican Media shows Pope Francis' body during the Rite of the Confirmation of the Pontiff's Death at the Chapel of Santa Marta in Vatican City, 21 April 2025. Pope Francis died on 21 April 2025 at the age of 88, according to the Holy See. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On 17 December 1936, he was appointed leader of the Catholic Church on 13 March 2013, succeeding Pontiff Emeritus Benedict XVI. EPA/VATICAN MEDIA HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing 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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

epa12036828 Pope Francis leaves the Regina Coeli prison by car in Rome, Italy, 17 April 2025. The Pope was in the Roman prison on Maundy Thursday 2018. On that occasion he celebrated Mass in Coena Domini with the traditional rite of foot washing. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

VATICAN POPE PALM SUNDAY

Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATICAN PALM SUNDAY

epa12028884 Pope Francis at the end of the Mass on Palm Sunday in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, 13 April 2025. EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI

VATICAN PALM SUNDAY

epa12028880 Pope Francis at the end of the Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, 13 April 2025. EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI

VATICAN PALM SUNDAY

epa12028876 Pope Francis at the end of the Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, 13 April 2025. EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI

VATICAN POPE HEALTH

Pope Francis' personal aid for health Massimiliano Streppetti, right, holds a microphone for him as Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

ITALY POPE FRANCIS

epa11982890 Pope Francis (C) delivers his blessing, after the Angelus prayer, from a balcony of the Gemelli Hospital where has been hospitalized, in Rome, Italy, 23 March 2025. Pope Francis will be discharged on 23 March with a prescription for at least two months of convalescence after spending more than five weeks in the hospital for bilateral pneumonia. EPA/GIUSEPPE LAMI

BELGIUM POPE FRANCIS VISIT

epa11632025 Pope Francis leads the holy mass at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, 29 September 2024. Pope Francis is in Brussels on a trip to 'the heart of Europe' to discuss the continent's role in the world. The pastoral visit to Brussels, focusing on the celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, will last until 29 September. EPA/CIRO FUSCO

VATICAN POPE FRANCIS

epa03976342 Pope Francis smiles as he leaves after the weekly General Audience in St. Peter's square, Vatican City, 04 December 2013. Pope Francis called for prayers on 04 December 2013 for the safety and release of a group of nuns taken from a Greek Orthodox retreat in Syria. In an appeal at the end of his weekly general audience, Francis said that the nuns had been taken by armed men earlier in the week from their residence of Santa Takla near the predominantly Christian village of Maaloula about 75 km from Damascus. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ETTORE FERRARI)

Pope Francis gestures as he attends an annual gathering of pro-family organisations at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS MESSE WEIHNACHTEN

Pope Francis leaves after delivering his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Pope Francis is praying that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people while praising the generosity of those countries that have taken their refugees in. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

VATICAN SILHOUETTE POPE

epa03923887 The inescapable silhouetted profile of Pope Francis taken at the end of a meeting with President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Vatican October 25, 2013. (KEYSTONE/EPA/MAX ROSSI)

epa05366037 Pope Francis during his general audience at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, 15 june 2016. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI

(RESEND) VATICAN RELIGION POPE

epa05889842 (RESEND) - Pope Francis changes his zucchetto (skullcap) as he leaves St. Peter's Square in Vatican city for his weekly general audience, 05 April 2017. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI (RESEND)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS OSTERN

Pope Francis holding a tall, lit, white candle, enters a darkened St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Saturday, March 30, 2013, to begin the Vatican's Easter vigil service. Pope Francis is celebrating a trimmed back Easter Vigil service after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he has begun to put his mark on the Catholic Church. Francis processed into a darkened and silent St. Peter's Basilica at the start of the Saturday service, which recalls the period between Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATIKAN PAPST WAHL FRANZISKUS

Visitors take photos of Pope Francis as he speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Francis is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

VATICAN FRANCIS REVOLUTION

FILE _ In htis March 13, 2013 file photo, Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, during his first appearance just after being elected. Since his election, Pope Francis has started a revolution in the Roman Catholic cChurch that charmed millions and the mainstream media, as he goes about doing what he was elected to do: reform not just the dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy but the church itself, using his own persona and personal history as a model. But the enthusiasm isn't necessarily shared across the board. Traditionalist Catholics — so coddled by Benedict XVI in his pursuit to reach out to Catholics attached to the old Latin Mass and opposed to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council — greeted Francis' election with concern and now have had their worst fears realized. Francis has spoken out both publicly and privately against such "restoratist groups" whom he accused of being naval-gazing retrogrades out of touch with the evangelizing mission of the church in the 21st century.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

VATIKAN PAPST WAHL FRANZISKUS

epa03622415 Argentina Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio blesses believers from the balcony after he was elected the new Pontiff, 13 March 2013 at the Vatican. The 76 year old will be called Pope Francis I and is the first pope from the americas and the first from outside europe in over a thousand years. EPA/RADEK PIETRUSZKA POLAND OUT

VATIKAN PAPST WAHL FRANZISKUS

epa03622397 White smoke rises from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel to indicate that the cardinals have elected a new pope on just the second day of their secret conclave at Vatican City, 13 March 2013. (KEYSTONE/EPA/VALDRIN XHEMAJ)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

This undated photo made available by Maria Helena Bergoglio shows Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a teenager in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the "first Latino pope," a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for some Latinos in the United States, there's a catch: Pope Francis' parents were born in Italy. The conversation about Pope Francis' ethnicity is rooted in history and geography. Latin America is a complex region of deep racial and class narratives. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Bergoglio Family)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this 1966 photo released by the El Salvador School, Argentine seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio smiles for a portrait at the El Salvador school where he taught literature and psychology in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio was elected pope on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, making him the first pope ever from the Americas. Bergoglio, who was born in 1936, chose the name Pope Francis. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/El Salvador School)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this March 24, 2011 image released by the San Lorenzo de Almagro soccer team on March 13, 2013, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio holds up a small flag of the San Lorenzo soccer team in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, a San Lorenzo soccer fan, was chosen as Pope on March 13, 2013, the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. (AP Photo/Club Atletico San Lorenzo de Almagro)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Bergoglio was elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

An undated photo of Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who may be one of the candidates to become the next pope. (KEYSTONE/EPA/STR)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

CORRECTS YEAR - In this 2008 photo courtesy of Sergio Rubin, Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio talks with a man as he rides the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, named pope on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, was known for taking the subway and mingling with the poor of Buenos Aires while archbishop. Bergoglio chose the name Pope Francis and is the first pope ever from the Americas. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sergio Rubin)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this 2008 photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left, travels on the subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, named pope on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, was known for taking the subway and mingling with the poor of Buenos Aires while archbishop. Bergoglio chose the name Pope Francis and is the first pope ever from the Americas. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Pablo Leguizamon)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this picture taken Aug. 7, 2009, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, right, gives the holy communion to Argentina's former army chief Roberto Bendini in Buenos in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buenos Aires' Archbishop and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was named pope on Wednesday, making him the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. Bendini was charged in 2008 by a federal court with misdirecting army funds to a private bank account before assuming his position as army chief in 2003. (AP Photo/ DyN)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

epa03622669 A file photograph dated 20 March 2008, shows Buenos Aires archbishop, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, during the holy Thursday celebration held with poor people and drug addicts , in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, 76, has been elected as new Pope Francis I by the conclave in the Vatican, on 13 March. EPA/ENRIQUE GARCIA MEDINA

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this March 21 2011 photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio touches a baby after a Mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Latin Americans reacted with joy on Wednesday at news that Bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. (AP Photo/DyN)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this March 24, 2011 photo released by the San Lorenzo de Almagro soccer team, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, third from left, poses with young players of the San Lorenzo soccer team inside the soccer club's chapel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio, a San Lorenzo soccer fan, was chosen as Pope on March 13, 2013, the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. (AP Photo/Club Atletico San Lorenzo de Almagro)

ARGENTINIEN KARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO

In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks "mate," a traditional local beverage, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio was chosen as Pope on March 13, 2013, the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. (AP Photo/ DyN)

Pope Francis poses for photos with a group of nuns during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (KEYSTONE/AP/Andrew Medichini)

epa11826200 Pope Francis greets the faithful during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, Vatican City, 15 January 2025. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO)

ITALIEN PAPST SELFIE

A boy takes a selfie with Pope Francis, during a visit to the parish of Santa Maria Josefa del Cuore di Gesu', in Rome, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS

epa11557645 Pope Francis wears a red nose during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, Vatican City, 21 August 2024. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ANGELO CARCONI)

OSTTIMOR PAPST BESUCH

Pope Francis greets people at the Presidential Palace in Dili, East Timor, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (KEYSTONE/Pool Photo via AP/Willy Kurniawan)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS

epa11217825 Pope Francis' cap flies away as he attends his general audience in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City, 13 March 2024. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO)

VATIKAN PAPST FRANZISKUS PALMSONNTAG

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023, a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he has been treated for bronchitis, The Vatican said. The Roman Catholic Church enters Holy Week, retracing the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Mongolian President Ukhnaagin Khurelsukh, left, and Pope Francis meet, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in front of a gigantic statue of former Khagan of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday morning for a four-day visit to encourage one of the world's smallest and newest Catholic communities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

VATIKAN PAPST AUDIENZ

Pope Francis arrives for an audience with Hungarian pilgrims in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis departs for South Sudan from Kinshasa, Congo, Friday Feb. 3 2023. Pope Francis opened the second and final leg of his African pilgrimage by heading to South Sudan on Friday, hoping to encourage the young country's stalled peace process and draw international attention to continued fighting and a worsening humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Pope Francis arrives for an audience with pilgrims who came to Rome for the canonization of St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair to attend an audience with nuns and religious superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, has been suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He revealed he recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain, but he has continued to struggle to walk and stand. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

ITALY POPE FRANCIS UKRAINE RUSSIA CONFLICT REFUGEES

epa09836333 A handout picture provided by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis at the Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital to visit the ward where the hospitalized children who arrived from Ukraine in recent days are staying, in Rome, Italy, 19 March 2022. EPA/VATICAN MEDIA HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

epa07270732 Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in the Paolo VI Hall at the Vatican, 09 January 2019. EPA/MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI

PICTURES OF THE WEEK EUROPE AND AFRICA PHOTO GALLERY

Pope Francis on his popemobile drives through the crowd of faithful at the end of the Catholic Easter Sunday mass he led in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 17, 2022. For many Christians, this weekend marks the first time in three years they will gather in person to celebrate Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

VATIKAN PAPST JOHANNES PAUL KARDINAL BERGOGLIO

In this undated picture released by journalist Sergio Rubin, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, right, kisses the hand of late Pope John Paul II during a ceremony at the Vatican. Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, was elected on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sergio Rubin, ho)

VATIKAN PAPST BESUCH SCHWEIZ BUNDESRAT

Pope Francis meets Swiss politician Alain Berset during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (KEYSTONE/Pool Photo via AP/L'Osservatore Romano)

VATIKAN BESUCH SCHWEIZ UELI MAURER

Pope Francis exchanges gifts with the President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer, left, during a private audience at the Vatican, Monday, May 6, 2013. (KEYSTONE/Karl Mathis)