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PATRICK BULGER: Politics and the papal bull
Francis put heart before mind in a world made increasingly less habitable for the meek who have yet to inherit it
02 May 2025 - 05:00
It didn’t take that long, growing up Catholic in the strictest sense of the term, to realise the pope was a big deal. And in an age decades before social media, a remote and awful figure. Saturnine Latin face framed in a fuzzy black and white picture. He was our father in Rome, we were told. Italian. Similar in a way to a Mafia boss, but even closer to God. Not to be trifled with. Besides, he was infallible.
Human, too, obviously, but in an incidental way...
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