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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: 0.214s | 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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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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1. 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.