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Francis Is Dead

And: Ross Douthat On 'The Age Of Extinction'

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Rod Dreher
Apr 21, 2025
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Hours later, on Easter night, the Pope was dead

On the flight to Heathrow this morning, I wrote the following newsletter. Well, I just landed on my way to the US, and learned that Pope Francis has died. I don’t have time before my connecting flight to write properly about this — I had to write a piece for The European Conservative first — but I did want …

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