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Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:58:16 -0700 zerosugar from private IP, post #17716893 /all Pope Francis Pope Francis has died. How sad. I remember when he became Pope in 2013. He was looking super sick the past few weeks, but I thought he would have at least another year left. You just never know with the elderly. He will be remembered for the unusual way he ascended to the papacy and for being the first pope to select the name Francis. Throughout his papacy, he endured criticism by both conservatives and liberals alike who just couldn’t understand his ways. We are also living in very divisive extremist times where people expect leaders to take hardline stances and be very vocal about it. There are sadly some people who don’t get how the role of clergy is different from the roles of secular or democratically elected politicians. I think some conservatives expected him to be a warlord at the border armed while some liberals expected him to perform gay marriages and make women priests. Neither would be appropriate for him or any clergy member of the Church to do. Pope Francis was the first pope from the Americas, born in Argentina to a family of northern Italian origins. His father was an Italian immigrant accountant. I think the Netflix film The Two Popes was a very lighthearted cute approach to the contrast between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict. Here are two of my favorite videos for Pope Francis that always stand out to me: https://youtu.be/bRbUTfSds0U?feature=shared https://youtu.be/O3W1mG38IX4?feature=shared #News #PublicFigures Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:00:05 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #11838638 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4PEUHT0S3B3wxSDi0xrZuUg5SyDULbrlGO6EIbLREA5_qtewr_kWxQBKwWpQ_aem_O-sEEvEZ6b-3Ksd06b5xeg Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:21:50 -0700 Andy from private IP Reply #19301517 That is so awesome that he lived to see Easter and then passed. That is like Thomas Jefferson dying on the Fourth of July (actually happened). Imagine being one of the founding fathers and hanging on just a little bit longer in order to see the birthday of the country you founded. Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:34:49 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #11345462 @AndyTest Yes absolutely. Then John Adams dying too.Replies require login.