VATICAN CITY, — Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church for the past 12 years ... on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, drawing wild ...

Beretta noted that Pope Francis took his name from St. Francis of Assisi, who reconverted the Catholic Church to the Gospel. He exemplified many of the same ideas 800 years later, Beretta said.