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Trib­utes to Pope Fran­cis in­stant­ly poured in from around the world from pres­i­dents to peo­ple of all walks of like on Mon­day af­ter the Vat­i­can an­nounced the pon­tiff’s death at age 88.

Pres­i­dent Em­manuel Macron of France, a coun­try that is large­ly Ro­man Catholic, fo­cused on the pope’s im­pact on the church, writ­ing on X that “From Buenos Aires to Rome, Pope Fran­cis want­ed the Church to bring joy and hope to the poor­est. For it to unite hu­mans among them­selves, and with na­ture. May this hope for­ev­er out­last him.”

U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, who on East­er Sun­day met with the pope be­fore trav­el­ing on to In­dia, wrote on X on Mon­day that his “heart goes out” to the mil­lions of Chris­tians who loved him, and said: “I was hap­py to see him yes­ter­day, though he was ob­vi­ous­ly very ill.”