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Heroes of 2014: Pope Francis | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | theguardian.com
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The rights of humans should always come before the proclaimed rights of God 3hr 52min ago The Guardian view on video games design: more diversity needed Editorial: The dominance of young men has meant staple concepts of war and sports games. More women designers would lift the industry out of its creative rut License/buy our content | Privacy policy | Terms & conditions | Advertising guide | Accessibility | A-Z index | Inside the Guardian blog | About us | Work for us | Join our dating site today � 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. You don�t have to be a believer to recognise that the leader of a billion Catholics has emerged as a global champion of social justice. That�s something of a turnaround both for the Vatican hierarchy � and an Argentinian pope whose record under his country�s dictatorship was less than heroic. But Pope Francis is making up for lost time: denouncing capitalism and the �tyranny� of the market, condemning inequality as the �root of social evil�, rejecting Islamophobia and western warmaking � and even claiming communists are closet Christians who �have stolen our flag�. Add to that his rejection of Vatican pomp, purge of the curia and attempts to soften dogma on everything from sexuality to contraception, and no wonder the conservative backlash is in full swing. A couple of months back the pope told a visiting Latin American social movement leader he would eat only in the Vatican canteen. Was that to demonstrate his common touch? the activist asked. Not at all, the pope replied. He just didn�t trust what they might serve him in the papal apartments. Given Vatican history, he has reason enough to be wary � and both Catholics and non-Catholics have reason to hope he sees off his forces of darkness. 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