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Pope Francis Should Resign for the Good of the Church

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Pope Francis Should Resign for the Good of the Church
Pope Francis blesses worshipers at the end of the weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in the Vatican, on May 8, 2019. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
Rocco Loiacono
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On Dec. 13, 2021, Jimmy Lai, the founder of one of Hong Kong’s most popular newspapers, Apple Daily, was sentenced to 13 months in jail for participating in a vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in Beijing. Yet, while his imprisonment sparked condemnation around the world, in one place, it elicited only silence: the Vatican.
Rocco Loiacono
Rocco Loiacono
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Rocco Loiacono is a legal academic from Perth, Australia, and is a translator from Italian to English. His work on translation, linguistics, and law have been widely published in peer-reviewed journals.
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