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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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StefanBatory ◴[21 Apr 25 08:40 UTC] No.43749628[source]▶
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And for political side - in Poland, he was seen as way too leftist/liberal for the conservatives in Church, and too pro-Russian for the liberals in it - he had not condemned Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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1. femto ◴[21 Apr 25 10:17 UTC] No.43750222[source]▶
At one point Francis said "The Patriarch cannot become Putin’s altar boy", in reference to Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church [1]. Maybe Francis recognised that working to get Kirill to temper his support for Putin would be more effective than his own public condemnation, which might allow propagandists to whip up a Western vs. Orthodox religious frenzy to unify Russians behind Putin?

[1] https://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/adw_welcom/pope-says-kirill-m...