内容摘要：Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City on Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City on Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

But he added women to important decision-making roles and allowed them to serve as lectors and acolytes in parishes. He let women vote alongside bishops in periodic Vatican meetings, following long-standing complaints that women do much of the church’s work but are barred from power.Sister Nathalie Becquart, whom Francis named to one of the highest Vatican jobs, said his legacy was a vision of a church where men and women existed in a relationship of reciprocity and respect.

“It was about shifting a pattern of domination — from human being to the creation, from men to women — to a pattern of cooperation,” said Becquart, the first woman to hold a voting position in a Vatican synod.Still, a note of criticism came Monday from the Women’s Ordination Conference, which had been frustrated by Francis’ unwillingness to push for the ordination of women.“This made him a complicated, frustrating, and sometimes heart-breaking figure for many women,” the statement said.

Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before, as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, The Vatican said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Pope Francis consoles Serena Subania who lost her daughter Angelica, 5 years old, the day before, as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, The Vatican said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

While Francis did not allow women to be ordained, the voting reform was part of a revolutionary change in emphasizing what the church should be: a

— “todos, todos, todos” (“everyone, everyone, everyone”). Migrants, the poor, prisoners and outcasts were invited to his table far more than presidents or powerful CEOs.Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up

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, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89.Uruguay’s left-wing president, Yamandú Orsi, announced his death, which came four months after Mujica