PHOTOS: A look back at the life of Chicago's Francis Cardinal George
WLS
Friday, April 17, 2015
Cardinal Francis George pauses during a news conference in Chicago on April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Cardinal George as president-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Nov.13, 2007 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)
Cardinal George meets the media at the Pontifical North American College in Rome on April 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Cardinal George with Cardinal William Henry Keeler and Theodore Edgar McCarrick at North American College in Rome on April 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal George (right) with Pope Benedict XVI at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April 16, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Francis Cardinal George celebrated his last Sunday Mass at Holy Name Cathedral as Chicago's archbishop on Nov. 16, 2014. (WLS)
Representatives from across the city award Cardinal George Chicago's highest honor on Dec. 10, 2014. (WLS)
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Francis Eugene Cardinal George, Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.