complicit with Argentina’s homicidal junta in the late 70’s<\/a>. So yes, Pope Francis is changing up the papacy on a superficial level. It’s the deeper, less reactionary stuff that matters. And in that way, nothing has changed in the slightest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So he’s Latino and cares about the poor. That’s great. But he’s also said very homophobic things in the past and now some believe the new pope to have been complicit with Argentina’s homicidal junta in the late 70’s. So yes, Pope Francis is changing up the papacy on a superficial level. It’s the deeper, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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