SAN ANTONIO — After an active Easter weekend marking Christ’s resurrection, the Catholic community in San Antonio is now mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who the Vatican says died Monday morning from a cerebral stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible heart failure.
He was 88 and led the Catholic Church for the past 12 years.
Many in the San Antonio community had been praying for the pontiff’s health since the winter. His death came just weeks after he was discharged from the hospital, having spent five weeks there while contending with double pneumonia…