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I am not a religious man. As a non-practicing Catholic and a student of a university-level social justice course, the pope’s declining health and ultimate death were, at most, peripherally evident to me.
In the ensuing moments since his passing, I’ve come to learn of an immensely intelligent, overwhelmingly compassionate man who committed his life to the betterment of humanity, to each and every human being, regardless of color, status or religious affiliation.
He was a man who exuded genuine goodness and unprecedented sincerity.
All through my course in social justice, I’ve searched for a hero to mankind to revere and, perhaps, to one day implore my children to emulate.
My search is over, the hero found.
