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Pope Francis walks towards a newly planted oak tree during a tree-planting ceremony during the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2019. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

The Francis papacy in broad strokes

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In a file photo, Pope Francis walks next to Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias as he leaves the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2014. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)

Cardinal Gracias says Pope Francis was ‘fearless’

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Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Jan. 2, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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U.S. President VD Vance meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.)

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Pope Francis in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba on Sep. 22, 2015. (Credit: Ramon Espinosa/AP.)

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