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The Daredevil Pope: Why divorcees, married priests and homosexuals eye Papa Francis with hope

Pope Francis

‘The People’s Pope’ has returned the sheen of Christianity to the Papacy, and radically so.

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is a man of simple words and habits. He dispensed with the traditional papal scarlet cap and custom made designer red loafers and takes his breakfast in the Vatican cafeteria.
If Pope Francis constantly checked time in his eight hour flight to Kenya, he did so by consulting the cheap plastic watch that he wears.

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