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Pope Francis dies on Easter Monday, not long after meeting with the nominal number two man in the viciously anti-immigrant U.S regime

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Joy-Ann Reid
Apr 21, 2025
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I haven’t been Catholic since I was maybe six years old. My mom, Philomena Carryl Lomena (and yes, I know it’s weird that a woman named Philomena managed to find a husband whose surname was Lomena) was an Anglican when she came to the U.S. And my father, Sebastien Ibeke Lomena, her Congolese boo thang, was Catholic. He won the day, for a while, when she…

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