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The Radcliffe resurrection: Meet Pope Francis' synod preacher
Tensions were high inside the Vatican press room in October as Pope Francis' high-stakes summit on the future of the church barreled toward its close, when a correspondent representing a right-wing website that had spent the month warning that the …