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Pope Francis the Catastrophic

The world needs a far better pontiff

26 April 2025

9:00 AM

26 April 2025

9:00 AM

Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday morning at 88 years of age, has been described repeatedly as ‘a pope for the people, for the marginalised’. However, it is important to give an account of the pontificate of the 266th pope that balances up the fawning ‘eulogies’ all of us have no doubt heard and read.

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