Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

I mean not as a band name just a status update.

steal away

Ta

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/europe/vatican-us-catholic-conservatives.html

francis is pretty cool

inevitable casting, no?

Fernando Meirelles (City of God) will “direct an untitled film centered on the relationship between Pope Benedict and Pope Francis” for Netflix. “Benedict will be played by Anthony Hopkins and Francis will be played by Jonathan Pryce.”

Hannibal Lecter good choice for the Rottweiler, too

yay catholic fanfic

single-layer 'crowds' along most of the route today afaict

didn't stop rte livecasting it the entire day

this cunt can only dream of the crowds saint John Paul II could get, no twitter in them days but 8m ppl at York racecourse in '82!

his altar technique couldn't be fucked with!

nobody had the heart to tell him the 80k at croker were only there for daniel

this cunt can only dream of the crowds saint John Paul II could get, no twitter in them days but 8m ppl at York racecourse in '82!

There's not 8 million Catholics in England, let alone York Racecourse.

Are there even 8 million Englanders?

lol

John Paul II was pure evil, though. He was the Reagan of the modern papacy, standing by as hundreds of thousands of people died of AIDS. Francis is at least marginally better

sorry I meant to say 8 million homemade Welcome Pope JP II flags, a rumour was spreading around at the the time for every extra flag you brought to the gig, you get a year in purgatory knocked off .

It's hilarious how few left footers there are in England - it must be one of the Proddiest countries on Earth, and that's despite Manchester and Liverpool.

Francis is at least marginally better

it's quite a bit more than marginal.

Indeed, and not a Nazi too, which is always a bonus.

"it's quite a bit more than marginal."

yes agree

Speer was a marginally less bad Nazi, eh Jed?

my then-gf of six or so years cried all night when jpii popped em the relationship was doomed for many reasons at that point but it was another stark pointer tbh

than who? xp

People that are impressed by popes - whatever their fucking game is- make we really want to cry tbh!

"then cry all you want, I won't tell anybody"

I'm just being honest Jed, it genuinely depresses the fuck out of me, I'm not trying to be catholic edgelord here.

Cal, it's not something I'm invested in, hugely! It seems that Francis is a better man, by several orders of magnitude, than any other pope in living history and maybe ever.

but I'm absolutely open to being corrected.

I think John XXIII was also ok (for his time)

nick blinko is best pope

admittedly, a pretender

lol

Overdue for first Jewish pope imho

was listening to an amusing R4 report where some old Irish guy was at first complaining that after waiting for hours, Pope Franny's pope-mobile just whizzed past him in a few seconds and said he'd been told "he was going to be moving a bit slower than that". But then said "to see his smile made my day" and made it a completely worthwhile experience.

This 11 second video has made the pope's visit worthwhile. pic.twitter.com/BWzvb7SABr

— Craig James Connolly (@Craig5thFloor) August 26, 2018

Overdue for first Jewish pope imho

― faculty w1fe (silby)

what, peter doesn't count?

I agree with Jed.

I think this must be the best Pope ever.

The best video of 2019 arrived during the last minutes of 2019, maybe. #PopeFrancis #Pope #hand
pic.twitter.com/LWZ6z2fzfy

— Antonello Guerrera (@antoguerrera) January 1, 2020

bit of a papal tantrum sir? ooh not nice!

lucky she didnt get a rifle butt tbf

Slapped wrists all round.

The Pissy Pope

still I can see being annoyed by many of Jesus' followers

The Church is bringing out the heavy weaponry now; this miraculous plague crucifix is being brought to the Vatican https://t.co/E1ZXjajSC7

— Dr Francis Young (@DrFrancisYoung) March 26, 2020

human to miraculous-plague-crucifix ratio has been running too high for too long

start cranking these things out now imo

why aren't they manufacturing more of these things?

Pope needs to advise which patron saint is the one we should be banging down the door of - hopefully not Jude (hopeless causes). Is there a patron saint of disease or plague?

Oh, ok, St Roch is our man:

Invoked against: cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases. Patron Saint of: bachelors, diseased cattle, dogs, falsely accused people, invalids, Istanbul, surgeons, tile-makers, gravediggers, second-hand dealers, pilgrims, apothecaries, Catholic Diocese of Kalookan

cheer up goth

When we are in a state of sin, we are like "human bats" who can move about only at night. We find it easier to live in darkness because the light reveals to us what we do not want to see. But then our eyes grow accustomed to darkness and we no longer recognize the light.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 22, 2020

tl;dr: Corona - sinful human bats did it, to the rhythm of the night.

What is it like to be a human bat

Well now

The pleasures of a well-cooked meal or loving sexual intercourse are "divine" Pope Francis says in a newly-published book of interviews.https://t.co/u6Mso7CrAZ

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 9, 2020

Seems good?

Pope Francis calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples https://t.co/Gv7KDM1fqP

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2020

The pope gave an interview to the filmmaker, Evgeny Afineevsky, saying that “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.”
“They’re children of God and have a right to a family,” the pope said. “Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.”

has rod dreher commented on this y/n

Rod Dreher already ditched catholicism for not being conservative enough and is now orthodox.

This does seem good, but notable that it's just something he's said off the cuff to a documentarian, and not something that he has said in a formal statement.

I also worry that the next pontiff will be more conservative than Bergoglio