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I'm not religious, nor am I really a huge fan of the Catholic church, but Francis was a far better than average Pope.

He pushed the church in key ways I hope the next Pope will continue and expand.

Especially it matters that he called for urgent and decisive action on human-caused Climate Change.

It matters, too, that he sought paths to acceptance and inclusion of diversity.

I liked that he was a humble man, rejecting trappings of wealth, critical of his church's hoarded wealth, pushing for financial transparency, and focused on helping the poor. He seemed to want to be peer of, advocate for, and inspiration to regular people. Anyone, Catholic or not, ought admire such.

The contrast is especially apparent from the US, where the sitting administration makes frequent appeals to religion for exactly the opposite reasons, to profit upon the poor for the sake of the rich, to undermine and deplete what meager wealth they have (again in service of the rich), and to sow seeds of intolerance and distrust.

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