With the third-party characters out of the way, it's time to get to the really obscure Nintendo characters! First, we have ...

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Pope Francis — the first pontiff from the Americas who clashed with traditional Catholics, but hailed as a reformer by progressives — died on Monday, a day after Easter, at age 88. The pope had been ...

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The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

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Some cardinals expected Francis to be a caretaker pope, yet in just 12 years he reshaped the church in ways that will not be ...

Some cardinals expected Francis to be a caretaker pope, yet in just 12 years he reshaped the Church in ways that will not be easy to reverse or ignore.