{"id":5522,"date":"2025-04-21T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:43:44","slug":"pope-francis-is-dead-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/pope-francis-is-dead-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis is dead, Dies At 88,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic pontiff, Pope Francis, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Francis died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on the social media platform X, the Vatican said the pontiff died in his residence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-24\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1574186166799-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CK-qsqzq6IwDFQqIfAYd0hwjNA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_6_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis was elected pope on March 13, 2013, becoming the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>He had recently survived a serious bout of double pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear brothers and sisters, I must announce with profound sadness the death of our Holy Father Francis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father,\u201d Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced on the Vatican\u2019s TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>Pope faced fierce criticism from conservatives, who accused him of trashing cherished traditions.<\/p>\n<p>He also drew the ire of progressives, who felt he should have done much more to reshape the 2,000-year-old Church.<\/p>\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\" data-heateor-sss-href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/04\/21\/pope-francis-is-dead\/\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic pontiff, Pope Francis, has died. Francis died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. In a post on the social media platform X, the Vatican said the pontiff died in his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}