Pope Francis has died; Pope Leo XIV named as successor

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What's funny is the (unsurprising) number of people that clearly have no clue there were 2 American possibilities and the one selected isn't the one they think it is.



There is gonna be a lot of upset MAGA idiots when the "America F Yeah!!!" buzz wears off.
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The MAGAs would agree with some of his past comments:

In a 2012 address to the world synod of bishops, the man who now leads the church said that “Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel – for example abortion, homosexual lifestyle, euthanasia”.


In the remarks, of which he also read portions for a video produced by the Catholic News Service, a news agency owned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the cleric blamed mass media for fostering so much “sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyles choices” that “when people hear the Christian message it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel”.
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He went on to complain that “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children are so benignly and sympathetically portrayed in television programs and cinema today”
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The Pope has a few conservative views? Stop the presses...

I'm not blind to the significance of new Pope but people are really running with this like it's the biggest deal and are polarisingly scrutinising whether he's a super woke lefty wet blanket or a fiery crucifix of traditional church values. Non-Catholics seem to be really wrapped up in this one when, let's say, the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope of Alexandria never make the headlines.

He's the head of arguably the world's greatest tax-exempt pyramid scheme and it's an institution slower to change than continental drift. It would not surprise that he's probably not a massive prick but he's equally not the world's most progressive figurehead.
 
Liquid
The Pope has a few conservative views? Stop the presses...

I'm not blind to the significance of new Pope but people are really running with this like it's the biggest deal and are polarisingly scrutinising whether he's a super woke lefty wet blanket or a fiery crucifix of traditional church values. Non-Catholics seem to be really wrapped up in this one when, let's say, the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope of Alexandria never make the headlines.

He's the head of arguably the world's greatest tax-exempt pyramid scheme and it's an institution slower to change than continental drift. It would not surprise that he's probably not a massive prick but he's equally not the world's most progressive figurehead.
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Agreed. It's one thing I don't really understand. The Pope is never going to be some ultra-woke liberal who gets up there and denounces religion and criticizes the Catholic Church. Given many of the presumed leaders in the running for Pope, Leo XIV is sort of a centerist within the Catholic Church itself. Even the most liberal views in the Catholic Church are fairly conservative overall. But having someone at center or left of center is far better than having the other American, Raymond Burke, elected. Burke is an asshole, ultra-conservative, and a heratic.
 
Fezzik
The MAGAs would agree with some of his past comments:
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He's still Catholic so he will obviously tow line with most things. He dissents with quite a few MAGA views though and all it takes is one, and since one of his biggest is immigration there is no redeeming himself.
 
welp

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Hopefully he is not able to get close to him. Last time he got close to a pope they died to long after that.
 
When the Pope dies, the Vatican declares "Sede Vacante" ('the seat is vacant')...

A sofa is a type of seat. Just sayin'
 

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