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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: 0.216s | source
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carlos-menezes ◴[21 Apr 25 08:38 UTC] No.43749613[source]▶
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis...

> According to Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Master of Apostolic Ceremonies, the late Pope Francis had requested that the funeral rites be simplified and focused on expressing the faith of the Church in the Risen Body of Christ.

Always struck me as a simple man and that likely contributed to people liking him more when compared to his predecessors. RIP.

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jjude ◴[21 Apr 25 08:49 UTC] No.43749684[source]▶
Pope John Paul II was also extremely popular across the world.
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kitd ◴[21 Apr 25 09:39 UTC] No.43749998[source]▶
Part of that though was that he was Polish, at a time when Poland and other Eastern European countries were Communist dictatorships. He represented in part a kind of "insurgency" against them.
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1. ahazred8ta ◴[21 Apr 25 12:38 UTC] No.43751307[source]▶
The first non-Italian pope since the 1500s. For comparison, note the 1968 movie The Shoes of the Fisherman, in which a priest from Russia unexpectedly becomes pope and provokes great political change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoes_of_the_Fisherman_(fi...