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[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has become kinda habit:

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same fucking energy really.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair but I still think this one describes that Situation pretty good as well

Green Text abou the Elizabeth II's death - ">Lived jaut Long enough tonnot have Boris Johnson speak at her funeral -Unfathomably based"

[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago

Did he even say thank you??

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago (2 children)

up next: supreme court to decide if trump can choose the next pope

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did not have a Henry VIII style split with the church on my bingo card, but let's just get it over with. Can't wait for US Catholics to get the option to openly follow their one true religion: Cheap, poorly managed, failing attempts at white American hegemony and hate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One thing I really think the he should have done more was criticize the American version of Christianity. It's divorced so much even from Protestantism that it should be called out. That one of the candidates to replace him is from the Philippines it will hopefully throw a wrench into the more racist aspects of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think a Catholic religious leader is really in much of a position to criticize Protestantism, do you? I mean I could see criticizing fundamentalism in general, but..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think the comment is suggesting they criticize Protestantism. I think they are suggesting that US Catholics faith no longer aligns with the Vatican and that it's diverged to the point that in no longer even represents the idea of Christianity at large (Protestants) and more just some new thing (presumably where people pretend to read the Bible and just ignore all the commandments).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ah, yeah that's fair, I may have misunderstood. Although honestly cherry-picking the bible is neither new nor uniquely Protestant. I do wonder how uniquely American it is though, because there's a very wide streak of it through American evangelicalism but I don't hear too much about it from elsewhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought he should. I should have specified the tradcath movement and by that I mean like if you go to Twitter or related platforms you get these people claiming to be catholic and stating that they are tradcaths, some idealized version of a catholic that believes in 'traditional values' and just general MRA, incel stuff that otherwise never ever made sense in catholicism. And then you have plenty of leaders in the States that repeatedly claim to be Christian or just outright make up stuff and pretend like their idealogy is completely approved by the Vatican (or they are just so ignorant they just assume all Christians follow the same ideaology). Paula White and JD Vance are a good examples of this.

It's just that there's a growing blurring in the States of Protestantism, Teleevangelism and Catholicism that I think the pope should have addressed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Vatican 2 (updates such as being able to say Mass in a language that people can understand) pissed off a group of weird people, who have been quietly pretending that things the Pope says about not hating gay people aren’t official Church doctrine. It is surprising that they haven’t tried to set up their own counter Pope yet.

Lots of these American trad caths are people raised in that mega church vague non denominational Protestantism where rules don’t really matter. They get a little grossed out by the corporate slickness and callous capitalism (give give give, so we can improve our million dollar sound system), so they think they can keep doing what they’re doing - just with a little more class.

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

Yea, I'm not gonna start criticizing him because I'll just never stop, but I'll at least agree with your point.

For what it's worth, what the pope actually says/does has started mattering very little anyways. They no longer even pretend to care.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we start gambling on who the American Pope is going to be? My money is on Andrew Tate.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

breaking news: trump has just anointed hulk hogan as the next pope

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

MY BROTHERRRR IN CHRIST

Catch me in Avignon with the nWo. Mick Foley died several times for our sins

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago

Pope, why don't you wear a suit?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

"Don't you have a suit, old man?"

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why does Vance always look like somone's shitty slenderman fanart?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Now that I see it, I'm having a tough time unseeing it.

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! The day is young and the meme train has just begun.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No shot, is the pope actually dead? Is this how I find out?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Yup. He worm food now

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man I'm gonna miss him. Dude was a damn legend and the stuff he accomplished was nothing short if amazing.

[–] FistingEnthusiast 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Religion is poison.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah, any statement like that must be qualified: he seemed like a decent person; for a religious leader.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's just it. Francis seemed like a very progressive pope.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, he was pretty progressive.. for a pope. For a normal person he was still pretty damned conservative though, hence the qualifier.

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

Why does there need to be a qualifier? Sure he made the Catholic church hate gay people a little less. That's nothing to celebrate, especially as the church celebrates the end of Roe v. Wade in America and continues to funnel money to anti-abortion campaigns in every state.

Oh, but he was a nice oppressor so that's okay?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, you've got it backwards. What I'm saying agrees with you: even for all the good things he did, beginning the long process of softening the Church's stance on things like LGBT+ issues, same-sex couples, divorce, etc, he was still the head of a religious institution that advocates hate and spreads disinformation and protects child molesters and shit. The qualifier is there to show that the standard by which he is being judged in this light is an artificially low one: of all the popes we could've had he seems to have been the most inoffensive, but that's a pretty fucking low bar.

Also I've seen lots of Protestant leaders celebrating the end of Roe v Wade and such, but I have not seen any evidence of the involvement of Catholic leadership in such things (not that I've looked very hard, admittedly.) Do you happen to have anything I could read for more detail on the subject? I'd like to stay informed.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sure, if you ignore the centuries of medical, mathematical and scientific research religion directly caused. From Islamic scholars to Catholic scientists who discovered genetics and concepts like the big bang. Don't worry, you'll grow up one day and realize the purpose of religion isn't so black and white.

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

Isn't that discriminatory against religious identities?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm just going to ramble so sorry if it's a little incoherent.

One of the most progressive popes in recent memory. He continuously stayed in touch with the parishioners in Gaza and continously spoke out against the genocide, even on his deathbed he kept in touch with them, he encouraged Marxists and Catholics by becoming the first pope to outright acknowledge the similarities in Marxism and Christianity (doing so many times over the years), he replaced about 80% of the current cardinals with ones more progressive like he, hopefully solidifying his message and became the first ever pope to apologize and start to reconcile the relationships with the indengeious Canadians and what the church did to them with residential schools.

He encouraged unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, by working out and having both churches celebrate easter for the first time since the schism over 1000 years ago, helping to mend the churches possibly even more so than Ecumenism. He was one of the only public figures actually talking about the genocide in Darfur.

He was a proponent of LGBT peoples in the church. Definitely not on the same level as some progressive but he was the first pope to allow a LGBT+ advocacy group (Jonathan’s Tent) and give them spotlight, even giving them their own events in the calendar, also changing the direction of the church's opinion on the LGBT community.

He was quite often criticized by conservatives as a socialist and Marxist but really he was just following the doctrine. He also had views on refugees and migrants that I can't recall exactly right now. With regards to the sexual abuse scandals that rocked the church in the 90s (rip Sinead o' Connor), he toughened the canon law to further go after the priests responsible. I recall he either fired or excommunicated some priests involved in the scandal but I can't recall atm. Imo, he should have gone farther on it but it was as a start.

I think he should have railed a little harder against the American televangelists and the American tradcath movement but there are Christian groups doing that on their own (like the Trinity Foundation). He wasn't perfect by all means. There were homes demolished during his visit in Timor-Leste and people displaced and he excommunicated Carlo Maria Viganò but when comparing him against the previous popes he left behind a tremendous legacy.

He is also the only pope to release a prog rock album.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He was very progressive by catholic standards
He reintated dialogue woth other religions woth some rare ecumenic traditions. Gave some vote and new postions for womennever seen before but not all what was asked from him. He was very active durning the pandemic, more then offering prayers but offering real help. He was like "yes pray but do what the doctors say too". Still he bailed out some fuckers but went hard on others so IDK, and also has some debatable past with the Argeninian dictatorship regime of the 70s.
He tried to make the church more welcoming to all and less corrupt, you can have your opinions about it if worked or not but at leas was clearly different than his predecessors. This is a veedry boiled down version for sure if you want to have a better opinion there's plenty on the internet to read about him.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Which one? The couch or the child fucker?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

There has to be some kind of anti-christ meme in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

No one survives an encounter with the grim reaper not even the pope.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is JD Vance one of the Anti Vaxxer bunch? Because if i was an old man hit by measles, tuberculosis and Covid at the same time i would also kick the bucket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

His military induction would’ve required a pile of vaccines if they weren’t up to date already.

CW: Needle phobiaVets call it the “peanut butter shot” because it’s this huge needle with a barrel of every relevant vaccine that can be given all at once, and it feels like sludge entering the veins that fucks you up afterwards as you begin boot camp.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ordering a dozen communion wafers. How long have you worked here?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn it JD, you did something good for once.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Do you really think this pope deserves to die by couch fucker?

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