Farewell to Pope Francis - Community Alliance

(Editor’s Note: This note is reproduced with permission from HispanicLA.com) Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known as Pope Francis, who died on Monday, April 21 at 7:35 a.m. Italian time, at the age of 88 in the Vatican, will go down in history as someone who worked tirelessly to open the Catholic Church to a growing segment of the faithful, trying to stop the exodus of Catholics and rejuvenating an institution characterized by its attachment to traditio…