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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

This is Public Relations from a billion dollar+ corporation known as the catholic church. Nothing more.

They still cover up for rapist priests. They still spew hate from their holy hate book. Still anti LGBT. Still want to force your children into their bullshit hate religion. Still interferes in your politics to make sure you don't have a say.

Fuck religion. Fuck this pope. Fuck his supporters.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Fuck yeah, off to a good start.

I was nervous when it was announced he was from the USA.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Let's hear him out, so far I am liking what he's throwing down.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Seems Francis kinda personally lined him up so here’s hoping

[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Francis stacked the deck by appointing 80% of the voting population.

[–] ChairmanMeow 3 points 1 hour ago

Apparently Francis was not really stacking the deck much, he appointed both progressives and conservatives. He did improve the geographical spread of the cardinals though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I love this, I hope it turns out JD Vance is possessed by demons or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

:crosses fingers: cmon, say Musk is the Antichrist, he wants it, we all kinda wanna see how it plays out...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, it would be Trump that's the antichrist.

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

"TWO of The Antichrist?! What is this, a black Friday sale?"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Cult vs cult.

...aight cool, I'll get some popcorn ready.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

His wiki had some issues, but if not even 24 hours later he's already shitting on Trump and co....well.....imperfect allies and all that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

we know this from social media posts as Cardinal on past months

[–] [email protected] 44 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

he isn't taking any visits from JD Vance neither

[–] [email protected] 58 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

100% of popes who talk to Vance die within 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Death gave vance the ability reap souls.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Past performance is not indicative of future results. It could actually be much, much worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, we could see it as bad as 200% of popes in 24 days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

What if they start dying before they meet JD?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

that just makes his job easier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

100% of popes who talked to JD Vance died with 24hrs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Vance killed the last Pope. Let’s hope he does not take a visit from Vance.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know someone who loves Trump and is very Catholic. This will be fun.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

If they're anything like my grandmother, who was a devout Catholic, they'll say the Pope needs to mind his own business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a whole contigent of catholics that explicitly said the last pope was illegitimate? I figure they'll just keep playing that same tune until it's someone that's as shitty as they are. Then the same process that was "broken" before will suddenly be perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

There's a conspiracy theory that every Pope has been illegitimate since 1958. The reasoning is pretty dumb, but I'll put it out here:

  • The reforms made during Vatican II are blasphemous.
  • No legitimate pope could endorse the blasphemy due to infallibility
  • Therefore the popes have been illegitimate.

I'm not Catholic, but I can see the fallacy there.

Interesting enough, the sedevacantists think the entire line after 1958 are pure antipopes, there's a splinter group of sedeprivationists, who think like you said: the post-1958 line can regain legitimacy once they renounce the so-called heresy.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You had to wonder if this was one of the reasons they chose to very quickly elect an American pope with ties to South America and Europe.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yes.

This is what he said in the past.

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church." -- Robert Prevost

We are essentially in that situation right now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

I'm sure he's speaking of all immigrants, but Latino immigrants are overwhelmingly Catholic.

Just stating a fact. The whole situation is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

I was thinking he was going to be on trumps side since hes an american, GLADLY willing to be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Trump will soon nominate himself the pope for America.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Take a page out of Henry VIII's book and make his own church with blackjack and hookers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

MAGA are basically a religion with Trump as their prophet, might as well make it official

[–] Tja 3 points 3 hours ago

And get that tax exampt status

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

So go visit El Salvador, first thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

As he should. MAGAts are the worst of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've seen enough trump photoshopping recently. Does anyone have the photoshop skills to show us this new pope backhand bitchslapping trump over the top of sofa?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Bonus points if couch fucker is in the corner of the frame doing his thing...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

I will keep my opinions of the catho church if this keeps going.