Pope Francis, 1936-2025 - Washington Examiner

Pope Francis, 1936-2025 - Washington Examiner

“An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, which were published this year. As the head of the Catholic Church for a dozen years, Francis was known for carrying his own bags, settling his own bills, and making his own phone calls. Francis’s style was often freewheeling and flirted with chaos. He once told a World Youth Day audience to go out there and “make a mess.…

Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025, according to the Holy See. During his pontificate, which began in 2013, he was often the target of misinformation, manipulated images and content generated with artificial intelligence (AI): from montages in which he appears with a designer coat or connected to a ventilator, to phrases that are attributed to him but never said about vaccines, Christmas or Holy Week. In this note, we collect some of the disinf…