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Noting Vance's meeting with Francis just before Francis died, Ali says,

"The contrast between the men and their understanding of Christianity could not be clearer.

In his last sermon delivered on Easter, Pope Francis recognized the humanity of Palestinians and called for a ceasefire."

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Wajahat Ali notes that, as a Muslim, he first read the bible and learned about Jesus, a major prophet of Islam, in the Jesuit high school he attended in the Bay Area. The Jesus his Jesuit education presented to him embodied agape, selfless love for others, and called his followers to “faith through service,” specifically for the most marginalized among us.

This is the lens through which Ali views Pope Francis.

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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/pope-francis-a-contrast-to-the-false

"This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed."

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And he did not tolerate them in the years that followed, as figures even crueler than Ryan took the stage in the US and around the world.

'Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,' wrote the then-new pope in his manifesto."

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"What made Pope Francis’s contribution to the global dialogue about the economy so significant was his explicit rejection of the basic underpinnings of the broken economic models that have created the current crisis. He did not tolerate ideas and approaches that in 2013 were promoted by fiscal fabulists like House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan and conservative leaders in Europe."

~ John Nichols

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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pope-francis-dead-obituary-economic-justice/

"Migrants, Gaza, the climate. He was much more than these three issues, of course, but his moral authority demanded caring attention to them, at a time when so-called leaders — such as the person who now inhabits the White House — would rather deploy brutality.

Pope Francis, RIP."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-the-world

“Francis fiercely rebuked the ‘globalization of indifference’ and the ‘idolatry’ of money. He explicitly condemned ‘trickle down’ economics as based on ‘a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.’”

~ E.J. Dionne

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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/tributes-to-pope-francis

"Francis took the unprecedented step of writing a public letter condemning Vice President J.D. Vance, a Catholic, for stirring 'narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.'”

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"It may sound like a minor bit of trivia—the first non-European pope since the 8th century, and the first pope from outside of Europe or the Mediterranean—but Francis’ outsider identity shifted, in a way, how the entire Catholic Church came to see itself."

~ Molly Olmstead

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https://slate.com/life/2025/04/pope-francis-death-catholic-church-vatican-conclave-cardinals.html

“'How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants,' he said in his Easter address, right after meeting with Vance."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/best-pope-ever-has-final-moments

"The outsider from Buenos Aires used his power and charisma effectively, in order to shape a more outwards-facing, generous-spirited and socially-engaged church. We will now find out how durable that influence will be."

~ Julian Coman

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/pope-francis-outsider-whose-reforming-mission-made-him-an-ally-of-progressives

"Pope Francis is rescuing the faith from those who hunker down in gilded cathedrals and wield doctrine like a sword. The edifice of fortress Catholicism — in which progressive Catholics, gay Catholics, Catholic women and others who love the Church, but often feel marginalized by the hierarchy — is starting to crumble."

~ John Gehring quoted by Rock Ronald Rozario

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https://www.ucanews.com/news/pope-francis-the-reformist-extraordinaire/107966

Snyder remembers this as a symbolic enactment on Francis' part, a deliberate choice to declare a message to the whole group. He concludes,

"Such symbols matter, because in them we can glimpse something higher through something human, something that remains even as the memory of white garments and golden artifice fades."

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Remembering Pope Francis, Timothy Snyder recalls a day in January 2018 when he was invited to a gathering with Francis at St. Sophia Ukranian Greek Catholic church in Rome. What struck him then was that Francis made the rest of those gathered in the church wait to meet him before he first went and greeted a group of disabled persons, one by one:

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"In one of his final public appearances leading the stations of the cross on Good Friday, Francis made clear his disdain for the leaders and cultures that refuse to lend a helping hand to society’s most vulnerable.

'Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,' he said. 'Theirs is the construction site of Hell.'”

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"Two days before he passed, he met with Vice President JD Vance—a meeting that until the last minute seemed unlikley not just because of the Pope’s poor health but because of his clear discomfort with the Trump administration’s agenda."

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