POPE FRANCIS HAS DIED

IN THE NEWS--"Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis," Cardinal Farrell said Monday in a video address.  Pope Francis was an Argentine Jesuit who became the first Roman Catholic pontiff from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
Francis was also the first person from outside Europe selected to lead the church in nearly 1,300 years. MORE AT Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, dies at 88