Gfdi. I’m not religious, but knowing that Catholics are going to choose a new Pope, I can only look forward to more bad news of comformity to godawful world news in the form of a shitty New Pope who inspires and empowers all the shitty people.
Great, one more thing to make the world even worse.
My sincere hope is that the Catholic Church looks at how they were perceived under Benedict—a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance; and how they were perceived under Francis—an actually compassionate and humble servant of the Church and its people. And based on that, they choose another Pope who’s in the same vein as Francis to continue bringing the Church into this century. There is still decades of work to be done, but we absolutely can’t go backwards right now.
a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance
Pretty sure this is because of JP2 playing whack-a-mole with pedophiles up and down his entire chain of command - shuffling them around and fucking lying about it for decades - then handing the grenade to Benedict. Remember: The Boston Globe blew it open in 2002, JP2 died in 2005.
Can’t believe he was fast track canonized. Ridiculous.
Im waiting for all the articles whe we he said something nice about gay people, so hes super progressive and we should be nice to the church cause they like us
Only to go to the comments where someone points out the next sentence he said was we are still going to hell
Gfdi. I’m not religious, but knowing that Catholics are going to choose a new Pope, I can only look forward to more bad news of comformity to godawful world news in the form of a shitty New Pope who inspires and empowers all the shitty people.
Great, one more thing to make the world even worse.
My sincere hope is that the Catholic Church looks at how they were perceived under Benedict—a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance; and how they were perceived under Francis—an actually compassionate and humble servant of the Church and its people. And based on that, they choose another Pope who’s in the same vein as Francis to continue bringing the Church into this century. There is still decades of work to be done, but we absolutely can’t go backwards right now.
Pretty sure this is because of JP2 playing whack-a-mole with pedophiles up and down his entire chain of command - shuffling them around and fucking lying about it for decades - then handing the grenade to Benedict. Remember: The Boston Globe blew it open in 2002, JP2 died in 2005.
Can’t believe he was fast track canonized. Ridiculous.
Or, on the theory that we’re living in the stupidest timeline, they’ll go with “Pope Biden I.”
There’s some hope… part of Francis’ papacy involved him promoting more open-minded cardinals (who are the ones who choose popes) but we’ll see
We can hope.
But also: “papacy”? Sounds like a dynamic I need in my life (:
This just in: the Catholic Church chooses Andrew Tate as their new pope
I think with the current zeitgeist we’re in for a Battle Pope this time.
Battle Pope! With flying “Rocket Papal Punch” action! Only $12.25 at your nearest Vatican.
Im waiting for all the articles whe we he said something nice about gay people, so hes super progressive and we should be nice to the church cause they like us
Only to go to the comments where someone points out the next sentence he said was we are still going to hell