Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known since March 2013 as Pope Francis, was notably distinct from his papal predecessors. Though of Italian heritage and citizenship, the Argentine was the first pope from the Americas and the first from a Jesuit order. His taking of the name Francis, for the ascetic Saint Francis of Assisi, established that he intended to eschew the trappings embraced by prior popes in favor of a more austere and simple papacy.

And so he did: Francis lived in a smallish apartment instead of the traditional papal residence, for example, and on most workdays he saw the world from the back seat of a Ford Focus.

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The austerity symbolized the pope's desire to refocus the church on........

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