Readers reflect on Pope Francis: He brought ‘many of us closer to God’

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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Then, less than two months later, on September 28, his successor John Paul I - the 'Smiling Pope' - passed away aged just 65 after just 33 days as Pontiff.
Daily Mail
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However, in a deviation from tradition, he requested a simple burial outside the Vatican in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
ABP Live
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Pope Francis came to lead a Catholic Church in crisis, beset by sexual and financial scandals, time-serving bishops besotted by pomp, a recalcitrant Roman curia, and a clericalism-minded clergy whom the Pontiff said did not “smell like the sheep.”
Daily Tribune
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Many of the popes who have served in the last century have been canonized as saints
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