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We begin the week here at KKHI with some overnight news.

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 after spending some time on Easter

Sunday with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. Popes have come to what has been ailing him for weeks now,

and that is largely pneumonia and lung-related issues, and he has died at the age of 88. He was the

266th pontiff for the Catholic Church,

and this is going to be a very interesting time over the next few weeks in the Catholic Church

to see what they decide to do with a Pope going forward. Obviously, when there have been 266

popes, this is not an unusual situation. They've been doing this for centuries

in the Catholic Church. But there were many people, many Catholics, who really appreciated

Pope Francis for his outreach to the unincluded, whether that be LGBTQ community, broken marriages,

people on the periphery that were thought to be either less

fortunate or devalued in many ways. He traveled to many countries and visited many places

where popes had never been, so he was ground-breaking that regard. But it was pretty obvious

as Pope goes, as a Pope goes, that if we want to use United States

politics, he was liberal, especially for a Pope, which is obviously a very conservative

position to hold, and the Catholic Church as a whole is extremely conservative.

So this will be very interesting to see what transpires now over the

next few weeks. They will have 135 cardinals convene as conductors in the next couple of weeks,

and they'll decide where to go for the next pope, the succession plan. But these cardinals apparently

don't know each other very well. And Pope Francis built the Catholic Church this way. He hoped upon his death that many voices from many places from around the

world would convene together at the Vatican to decide on a Pope and be a very completely diverse

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