Fr. John R. Muir, Diocese of Phoenix

We spoke to Fr. John R. Muir this morning who serves as the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Phoenix. We are getting his reaction to the death of history’s first Latin American pontiff, Pope Francis, who passed away Monday at the age of 88. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement. 

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