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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: 1.246s | source
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lazzurs ◴[21 Apr 25 11:48 UTC] No.43750843[source]▶
A man has died, that is sad.

Under his watch he did not move the church to fully acknowledge or deal with the historical and widespread abuses the organization he led was involved with. He had opportunity to be the leader to bring the organization around and he did not. Let's all hope his replacement will.

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1. weard_beard ◴[21 Apr 25 11:59 UTC] No.43750924[source]▶
He didn’t make things worse and he, in his heart and in his words, kept the spirit of Jesus’ teachings and not the dogma of power and patriarchy.

May the next pope feel emboldened to further this as the church itself becomes less of a lumbering monster.