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Pope Francis' Complicated Legacy

Pope Francis' Complicated Legacy

ITM breaks down the progress that Pope Francis made on LGBTQ rights, alongside his many shortcomings.

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Ian Thomas Malone
Apr 22, 2025
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I’ll never forget the day Pope Francis was elected. It was the spring of my senior year at Boston College, a Jesuit university. I’d taken a theology elective, mostly because it was easy, only met once a week, and was taught by a Jesuit priest, the latter of which was on my bucket list. The class was called The Crisis of Confidence in the Catholic Church…

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