Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

"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

I worry he'll be more conservative than Ratzinger.

there's a difference between homosexual acts and homosexual relationships which is always going to be unresolved in this context

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.

https://catholicherald.co.uk/pope-francis-rants-against-delinquent-priests-who-withhold-absolution-2/

Priests should grant absolution in the confessional even when the penitent has no intention to repent, the Pope has said in a speech which has shocked seminarians.

The Holy Father put aside a written speech, describing it as “boring”, and delivered an off-the-cuff address to seminarians from Barcelona, Spain, in which he frequently used foul language.

...

According to reports, Francis also used his speech to rant against “f***ing careerists who f*** up the lives of others”.

The Pope also criticised “those who climb to show their a**”, the Italian media outlet Daily Compass reported.

hahahaha, WHAT?

the pope said "fuck" in his speech? 2023 is looking up

this is the day he finally became pope

Francis has had it up to here with these fuckers

Is this the Catholic Onion?

It sounds like it, right? I had to check. It looks like a conservative/traditional Catholic publication, which means that it's probably interested in making the Woke Pope look bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Herald

yep

But did he say the f word? As long as that still happened

God I wish I was Catholic right now

i am, for this week at least. the pope fucking made me catholic

Oops.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/europe/pope-francis-russia-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html

sorry ukraine but how is he going to heal the great schism if he can't win over the third rome?