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It was powerful stuff, some old-school fire and brimstone. Suddenly his parish church in the Liberties went from a third-full on a Sunday to rammed to the rafters every morning. The Church was delighted. This was the new face of modern Catholicism, reconnecting with their lost congregation. Franks was all of that, right up until he started preaching that it was sinful how the Church and the religious orders owned billions of euros worth of property while so many slept homeless on the street. Then he questioned why the Bishop of Rome lived in a golden palace, while so many went hungry around the world. Why the life of a child was sacred right up until the point it was born.