Pope Francis has died
Pope Francis has died
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Pope Francis has died, the Vatican says
388 comments
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I'm actually sad about this one. He was by far the best pope of my lifetime.
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Low bar.
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True but he exceeded the existing bar by a lot.
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Yes, but if the next one is a little better, and the next one, and the next one...
The church evolves very slowly.
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If politics is anything to take a pattern from, things will get slightly better, but are followed by gigantic steps backwards.
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You've really got to boil that frog for a while
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Doesn't help they pick the oldest guys in the room to become the pope.
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That’s why they keep doing it, same thing in politics. Old people holding back progress in a desperate attempt to grasp onto power just a bit longer.
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I mean, I think they're also choosing old people to be pope because it's a "for life" thing. Plus the whole wisdom aspect and shit since it's religion
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I feel like anyone who still believes that crap that age necessarily brings wisdom needs to be prevented from making any political decisions at any cost.
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Of course it doesn’t necessarily bring wisdom, agreed,
Also agree with considering life experience though
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That is by no means a given! In fact we should expect a counter-movement within the church, as that's what happens if a leader is gone that was pushing the organization in a more progressive direction against the will of many influential members.
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They will definitely not appoint an even more progressive pope after him. He was “the progressive pope” for a time and now they will shift gears in the other direction for a time. The Catholic Church is not on some steady progressive march. Especially the way politics are going around the world, you can expect a very anti-woke pope next.
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Speed bump.
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I feel depressed watching someones last days no matter who they are. R.i.p. I think it was brave of him to be in public for so long.
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He had the dopest pope rock album too, I imagine that record will stand
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This comment proves the church’s PR experiment worked. The lies worked. He wasn’t progressive, he was a hard conservative, homophonic, misogynist who defended pedos and spewed hollow platitudes while sitting on a trillion dollars. But the church put him in place and threw a huge propaganda machine behind him and you bought it
Edit: to the pedo lovers in this thread who are gonna miss king pedo
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homophonic
I think he was the first Pope Francis. But even if he were the second, that wouldn’t make him a homophone.
I guess all popes are homophonic in some languages, like in Spanish “la papa” is potato and “el papa” is pope.
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You win the award for funniest spelling pedantry of the month.
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Did you even see the earlier Popes? He did everything you say and yet this guy was liberal by every definition compared to the guy he replaced. Benedict was nasty and he knew it.
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He said a lot. Did the opposite and continued the church’s status quo, you’re a fool if you think his pro lgbt talk was sincere, actions speak louder than words
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This comment proves the church’s PR experiment worked.
Conspiracy theorists are so weird... Like do you imagine a smokey room with the pope and a group of cardinals talking about how they want to represent the church in a completely opposite way to how they want it to be? Or is there a "shadow church" that controls it all and the pope is unaware?
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