Pope Francis

Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, died Easter Monday at the age of 88.Francis stood out for preaching empathy and inclusion to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics throughout a 12-year reign. Matt Brubaker is a teacher at St. Stephen’s Catholic School in Glenwood Springs. As students planned an event on a warm April afternoon, he told KDNK’s Marilyn Gleason how the school observed the death of the Bishop of Rome.

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