Author: T.J. Muscaro

The Vatican revealed on April 21 that Pope Francis suffered a stroke, which led to a coma and then irreversible heart failure. He died at 7:35 a.m. that same day in his apartment at the Domus Sanctae Marthae. He was 88 years old. The news came with the declaration of death, made by Dr. Andrew Arcangeli, the Vatican’s director of health and hygiene, who noted the pontiff was already suffering from multiple bronchiectases, arterial hypertension, and Type II Diabetes. The octogenarian was hospitalized for more than a month, battling double pneumonia and suffering two episodes of respiratory failure that required…

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