{"id":39370,"date":"2025-04-21T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/he-was-the-peoples-pope-us-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:54:54","slug":"he-was-the-peoples-pope-us-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/he-was-the-peoples-pope-us-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was the people\u2019s pope\u2019: US leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope\u2019s death was confirmed Monday morning and political and religious leaders are sharing expressions of mourning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/pope-francis-dies\">Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/21\/pope-francis-dead-dies-catholic-church-latest-news-updates\">Latest updates: tributes paid after Pope Francis dies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American politicians and religious leaders reacted to the news on Monday morning of the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, with expressions of mourning and tributes to his life and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s death was confirmed early Monday morning in an announcement read out by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/21\/pope-francis-death-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope\u2019s death was confirmed Monday morning and political and religious leaders are sharing expressions of mourning Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88 Latest updates: tributes paid after Pope Francis dies American politicians and religious leaders reacted to the news on Monday morning of the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018He was the people\u2019s pope\u2019: US leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/he-was-the-peoples-pope-us-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pope-francis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018He was the people\u2019s pope\u2019: US leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}