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Op-ed column
New pope signals new direction for the Catholic Church
Sunday, March 17, 2013
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By taking the name Francis — one of Roman Catholicism’s most humble and beloved saints — the new pope announced changes coming to Western Christianity’s largest church, a church in crisis. The cardinals, in putting their trust in Francis, were directly responding to the challenge laid out by the former Pope Benedict XVI...
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