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Re:Pope Francis Has Died by kitd on Monday April 21, 2025 @05:39AM (#43749998)
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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Re:Pope Francis Has Died by ahazred8ta on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:38AM (#43751307)
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...
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