“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall ... Francis, who spoke about Chagall’s painting in a 2010 biography, died Monday at 88.

“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. He’s right. The 1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in ...