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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 5 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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CKMo ◴[21 Apr 25 08:58 UTC] No.43749746[source]▶
I genuinely liked him, even as an atheist. He seemed to be trying his best to make the world a better place and I can't fault him for that.
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yodsanklai ◴[21 Apr 25 09:35 UTC] No.43749975[source]▶
> .. even as an atheist

lots of christians didn't like him, considering he was too progressive

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1. numbers_guy ◴[21 Apr 25 11:40 UTC] No.43750779[source]▶
Only American Protesting Catholics had issues with him. The same ones that post Deus Vult memes on Facebook.
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2. gambiting ◴[21 Apr 25 12:38 UTC] No.43751305[source]▶
Plenty(well, some) Catholics in Poland had an issue with him for the exact same reason - just way too progressive for them. Although I do think that American Catholics are particularly.....fervent in their beliefs.
3. somenameforme ◴[21 Apr 25 16:57 UTC] No.43754020[source]▶
Look up some numbers, his approval ratings outside of America were rapidly declining (at least in Latin America). [1] Interestingly the US is the one place where his approval ratings didn't decline over time, probably owing to the perfectly divided nature of contemporary politics. As he lost support from one side he gained it in equal proportions from the other. But in places like Argentina, his birth place no less, his approval rating dropped 27 points as he got increasingly involved in Progressive stuff.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/26/how-peopl...

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4. yodsanklai ◴[21 Apr 25 18:21 UTC] No.43754873[source]▶
One data point, but I live in a progressive country in western Europe, and I have close family members who are in the "right wing / trumpist / christians" movement (which does exist in Europe too), and obviously they really disliked this pope.
5. hoseja ◴[23 Apr 25 06:49 UTC] No.43769327[source]▶
I saw a map of countries he visited as the Pope and Argentina wasn't even there. Feels really strange.