内容摘要：Andrii Serhieiev, right, a soldier with Ukraine’s 53rd Brigade who lost a leg in combat, and another soldier install explosives near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Andrii Serhieiev, right, a soldier with Ukraine’s 53rd Brigade who lost a leg in combat, and another soldier install explosives near the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Francis formally apologized to Indigenous peoples for the crimes of the church from colonial times onward. And he went to society’s fringes to minister with mercy: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, kissing the tattoo of a Holocaust survivor, or inviting Argentina’s garbage scavengers to join him onstage in Rio de Janeiro.“We have always been marginalized, but Pope Francis always helped us,” said Coqui Vargas, a transgender woman whose Roman community forged a unique relationship with Francis.

His first trip as pope was to the Italian island of Lampedusa, then the epicenter of Europe’s migration crisis. He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism.Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Friend and fellow Argentine, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, said his concern was based on the Beatitudes — the eight blessings Jesus delivered in the Sermon on the Mount for the meek, the merciful, the poor in spirit and others.“Why are the Beatitudes the program of this pontificate? Because they were the basis of Jesus Christ’s own program,” Sánchez said.

A man is arrested during a protest against Pope Francis and the Vatican’s handling of sex abuse cases in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A man is arrested during a protest against Pope Francis and the Vatican’s handling of sex abuse cases in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)Ruggerio announced last April that he was receiving treatment for cancer, but he still sought reelection to the Senate and won in November.

In a statement, Gov. Dan McKee, a fellow Democrat, called Ruggerio “a great friend and true public servant who dedicated his life to lifting up the state he loved.”McKee said Ruggerio “will always be remembered for his unwavering commitment to supporting working families and strengthening Rhode Island’s economy.”

He directed U.S. and Rhode Island state flags to be flown at half-staff at all state facilities and buildings through the day of Ruggerio’s internment.U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both Democrats, expressed their condolences.