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Pope Francis experienced a critical asthmatic respiratory crisis, requiring oxygen and blood transfusions due to low platelets.

He remains alert but in more pain than the previous day.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As an ex-catholic myself I don't like too much the Catholic church, but this dude wasn't that bad comparing to all other Popes, don't forget that millions of people listen and follows whatever he says. It would not be so funny if we get a nazi apologist Pope now, to be honest I hope he lives a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, but "better than the other popes" was a very low bar. This one had better words, but not so many better actions.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

I think the point being made is that if he dies you are very likely to get someone far worst in a time where things are already at the brink.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Do you even know anything he’s done? He is by far the most progressive pope there has ever been.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not even so, the supposedly progressive opinions he gave out were way overstated by the mainstream media. He was just rewording the "hate the sinner not the sin" BS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a fallacy, or a strawman, or a scarecrow, I can't decide which of these.

He's already as bad as

a nazi apologist Pope

, just in small ways.

Saying that he's good because he's not doing the Musk salute is similar to saying Putin is not a belligerent fascist dictator because he has elections and doesn't have fascist ideology.

They (Vatican) literally have a representative at dealing with oriental Catholic churches, that'd be Chaldean, Armenian Catholic etc churches. That representative is in practice as good as another ambassador to Azerbaijan. My paternal ancestors belonged to Armenian Catholic church, and as you understand something of historical value on that might be in Vatican or institutions\museums\whatever under its control.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I do not disagree with you I think you missed my point. Like it or not, when he dies we will have another Pope, and I can bet money that the church is going to take the opportunity of the current trend to put a Pope that literally does the "Musk salute" and keep pushing their agenda... and like I said millions of people care a lot about what the Pope has to say. The last thing we need right now is a Pope that openly and aggressively supports far right governments in his speech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The last thing we need right now is a Pope that openly and aggressively supports far right governments in his speech.

I'd weigh this variant you fear same or less as a Pope who is saying all kinds of things for sufficient sums of money from all kinds of governments, maybe not limited to governments.

Which would be similar to Francis, but Francis is dangerous in being subtle.