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Popes John XXIII and Francis: Two ‘Men in Dark Times’

These are two transparent people whose lifestyles reveal a simplicity and authenticity that precede, or rather determine, the strategy informing their governing. Arendt marvels at the nonchalance of a pope who knows how to laugh and does so without restraint, just as Austen Ivereigh describes the closeness between the then Archbishop Bergoglio and his people.