{"id":27336,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:09:25","slug":"the-death-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/the-death-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27336\" class=\"elementor elementor-27336\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6fbd352 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6fbd352\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4af077d\" data-id=\"4af077d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86618c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"86618c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?fit=604%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-27337\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?w=1797&amp;ssl=1 1797w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=604%2C800&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=768%2C1018&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=1159%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1159w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=1546%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1546w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?resize=1320%2C1749&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Korea.net \/ Korean Culture and Information Service, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3260a36 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3260a36\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dfafa05\" data-id=\"dfafa05\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b83b96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b83b96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We join the Universal Church in mourning the death of Pope Francis. We pray for the repose of his soul.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Bishops of the United States have asked that the faithful pray a novena for the repose of his soul from April 26 to May 4. You may find the text of the prayers\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/novena-memory-pope-francis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We also ask you to join the Church in praying for the election of a new pope. Find the prayer\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayers\/prayer-election-new-pope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Our Lady of Lujan, patroness of Argentina, pray for Pope Francis!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korea.net \/ Korean Culture and Information Service, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons We join the Universal Church in mourning the death of Pope Francis. We pray for the repose of his soul.The Bishops of the United States have asked that the faithful pray a novena for the repose of his soul from April 26&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/the-death-of-pope-francis\/\" class=\"button button-primary\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Death of Pope Francis<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4211"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19.jpg?fit=1797%2C2381&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27391,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions\/27391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}