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An awards contender focused on the Catholic Church might potentially anger the faithful, but “Conclave” has, blessedly, avoided the kinds of high-profile controversies that have ensnared some of its fellow nominees.

It is a subject ensnared in a culture of ignorance, enveloped by the fog of anti-intellectualism, and animated by a disdain for difference and the Other.

That’s because deportation policies are at best blunt instruments that take little account of the human lives they ensnare.

Hernández is entering the back half of his career and will have to try to ward off the statistical regression that often ensnares sluggers as they age.

He introduces the plan and fully ensnares Tóth into the project.