Pope Francis’s death on Monday has triggered a period of mourning across the Catholic Church, including in Washington. The pontiff died of a cerebral stroke that put him in a coma and led to irreversible heart failure at 7:35 a.

Mourners young and old flocked to Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.

Pope Benedict was an ardent defender of Catholic traditions. Pope Francis, who died Monday, chose a more liberal direction. Which way will the church, famously resistant to change, move under his successor?