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1	* {{Anvilicious}}: Surprisingly averted, especially given the focus on the Catholic Church. There ''is'' a considerable anti-euthanasia tract in ''Fiat Voluntas Tua'', but even then the people on either side of the argument are both portrayed as having nothing but the best intentions.
2	* GeniusBonus: The story contains a lot of references to Church dogma which are clearer if the reader has a good working knowledge of Catholicism (and Judaism). Likewise, the use of dead languages.
3	* HarsherInHindsight: A large portion of the last section's plot has the main character strenuously advocating against euthanasia, arguing that life is too sacred to destroy for "convenient mercy." The author Walter M. Miller would eventually commit suicide after suffering a severe crisis of faith.
4	* HilariousInHindsight: Jokes about Abbot Zerchi dealing with an automatic translation device that didn't work very well where funny when the book was published. They're even funnier now that automatic computer translators exist and are notoriously spotty.
5	%% * JerkassWoobie: '''''Brownpony.'''''
6	%% ** Also Abbot Zerchi in ''Fiat Voluntas Tua''.
7	* TearJerker:
8	** The fate of Emily/Emma Leibowitz and the trapped people in the shelter Francis finds. And it's implied that the Old Jew [[spoiler:who may or may not be Leibowitz himself]] wanted Francis to find it, if only to put the past to rest.
9	** [[DownerEnding The ending.]] Especially as Joshua dusts off the dirt on his sandals [[spoiler:before boarding the ''Quo Peregrinatur'' starship as the world plunges into another Flame Deluge]], symbolically severing his ties to Earth.
10	--->"Sic transit mundus." (Thus passes the world.)
11	** Abbot Zerchi trying to persuade a mother not to euthanize her child. The child is stated to be so badly burned by the atomic blast that her gender is not apparent until her mother refers to her as such. Also note that the mother is referred to as "the girl," (implying she is very young herself) and has also been diagnosed as so irradiated as to be untreatable.

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