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Popes aren’t meant to be revolutionaries. Pope Francis, however, was. For a church steeped in tradition, change usually comes slowly, if at all. Francis, who died on Monday, understood this but never seemed dissuaded by it. But though he may have reinvigorated the Catholic Church, Francis did not resolve its fissures. Particularly in the United States, he deepened them — becoming a protagonist in, as well as a victim of, the country’s culture wars.