One of the poignant pictures after Pope Francis’s loss of life was a close-up {photograph} of his sneakers as he lay in his open coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica. Scuffed, worn and workaday, they had been a testomony to the Catholic Church he wished — one which walked out to the margins, served essentially the most susceptible and rejected clerical trappings.
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