内容摘要：Council members in Salt Lake City unanimously approved new designs Tuesday evening, adding the city’s emblem — a sego lily — atop the traditional rainbow LGBTQ+ pride flag and the blue, pink and white transgender flag. They also adopted a red and blue flag for

Council members in Salt Lake City unanimously approved new designs Tuesday evening, adding the city’s emblem — a sego lily — atop the traditional rainbow LGBTQ+ pride flag and the blue, pink and white transgender flag. They also adopted a red and blue flag for

Pope Francis walks with the pastoral staff as he celebrates Mass in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Standing by a mural of Pope Francis on a church, traffic police direct vehicles to get off the road as a government vehicle convoy passes through Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Standing by a mural of Pope Francis on a church, traffic police direct vehicles to get off the road as a government vehicle convoy passes through Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Pope Francis waves from his popemobile before giving a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Pope Francis waves from his popemobile before giving a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Francis led the church as Catholicism, including in places where ministries provide health and social services to communities below the poverty line.

More than 281 million Catholics live across Africa’s 54 countries, far more than the 185 million when Francis became pope in 2013, according to the Vatican’s latest figures.

Elizabeth Foster, a Tufts University historian and author of “African Catholic,” said that, in addition to a reformer, Francis was also a byproduct of debates that took shape during his youth, when the church was navigating decolonization and Europe’s withdrawal from Africa.Collaborations are few and pointed. Shelton and Stefani harmonize beautifully on “Hanging On’"; he does

on “Heaven Sweet Home,” an affecting meditation of mortality. He taps Josh Anderson for the slow-burn closer “Years.”Shelton might live a very different life than the characters found in his songs, as is often true of any larger-than-life celebrity performer. But make no mistake, this is a giant pop country record, with limitless potential for radio ubiquity.

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