Yeah didn't care but since they hate him I think I'm starting to like this pope.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Meh, not that woke.
I mean he's still a Pope, so no shit.
Exactly. No way you become pope without having had to get your hands dirty.
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poep is the correct Dutch spelling for it (pronounced the same as poop).
Honestly, most cardinals that were in any kind of position to be elected pope probably have similar stories, especially from that far back.
Not saying this is OK, but its kind of depressing that not having a history of protecting pedophiles is too high of a bar for morality for electing a pope.
I'm kind of waiting for a very ill informed person to draw up a conspiracy that JD killed the last pope to get an American pope in.
Ill informed since the guy is a relatively progressive and much more worldly, living in other places most of his life. Lol
Ill informed since the guy is a relatively progressive and much more worldly, living in other places most of his life. Lol
That wouldn't initially matter to them.
Far right people love to convince themselves that most people are secretly on their side. That's why the vatican had to excommunicate their archbishop to America. Since he went full maga and started ranting about the pope trying to control the vatican. Because in their mind, the rest of the vatican is on their side, and the pope was trying to "turn them against us".
So they fully expected this incominog guy to be on their side, until they were informed otherwise.
Hearing americans refer to the rep party as conservatives makes me look at Tories like they're left wing, crazy how politicians in the rest of the world basically the same as the rep party are seen as fringe and far-right in the rest of the world are js seen as normal in america.
Clinton was the last conservative president we’ve had.
Also give no shits. Religion and government do not belong together. The fact that they even have an Office of Faith is the most ridiculous thing ever. Get over it. Move on. Next piece of news please... like tf is happening with India now?
Indeed. In continental Europe, there's religious parties like there's no tomorrow. I'm like, WTF happened to separation of church and state?
There's a difference between what parties call themselves and what they do. For example, if you ask the leader of the Christian Democratic Union in Germany (who is also currently the chancellor) whether he supports Germany to be solely Christian nation, declaring the Bible as the ultimate source of state morality and legal philosophy, and impose Christian religious law on the population, he will ask whether you're out of your mind and what asylum you just escaped from. But ask the same to the leaders of the "secular" US Republican Party and you may receive a vastly different answer.
"Separation of church and state" means little to people who think along the lines of the Imperium and think it's a great template for your real world government. I'm not even catholic, but the backlash tells me this new pope seems rather a swell choice if he's going to keep on with what the last guy was into. (Catholic coverups aside, there really isn't a perfect choice on that though so Swiss cheese solutions it is.)
I said basically this to my wife not two hrs ago. Ha
Edit: spelling