Should Pope Francis sell the family jewels?

Contraception off the shitlist?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11109080/Pope-Francis-adviser-hints-at-rethink-on-contraception-ban.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html

fuckit I'm in I love this guy

Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”.

we're not a gaggle of Baptists, u know

Pope Benedict XVI fooled us

Kathryn Jean Lopez retweeted
Kevin Cotter @KevinRCotter · Oct 27
Just found out that my book, A Year of Mercy with Pope Francis, will be available in 3 days. Can't wait. http://ow.ly/i/7mtqc

so will you revise it?

yeah Pope Ratz was a special dude Rottweiler

if k-lo is anything i know she isn't a cafeteria catholic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2014/11/05/pope-francis-has-99-problems-and-they-are-all-his-pellegrina/

"I love 'Gloria'!"

http://www.cathnewsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/r-PATTI-SMITH-AND-POPE-FRANCIS-large570.jpg

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-gets-patti-smith-singing-cardinals-vatican-christmas-concert-1474736

"I wrote 'Frederick' about ne of your predecessors!

that is amazing

"Pope Francis said, 'I have a sensation that my pontificate will be short: four or five years, or two or three.'

"'I feel the Lord,' the pope added, 'has placed me here for a short time.'

"Francis also praised his predecessor's decision to resign as courageous. Benedict's decision, the pope said, opened the door to popes emeritus.

"He also said he doesn't mind being pope, but would like to go out in Rome unrecognized, for a pizza."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/13/392817912/pope-francis-says-his-tenure-at-the-vatican-will-be-short

Love this guy for all time but hope he remains Pope for a long long time.

fun w/ the Vatican Bank!

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34838/papa-francesco-would-like-to-see-the-real-books-please/

So the pope beatified Archbishop Romero, a martyr generally considered a foul commie by Church righties for 35+ years. Also, il papa has made friendly gestures to the founder of liberation theology.

(Chas Pierce got the timing of Romero's murder wrong -- Carter was president, not RR.)

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35248/the-pope-does-the-right-thing/

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/father-of-liberation-theology-praises-new-climate-at-vatican-1.2370340

http://gawker.com/rick-santorum-is-this-close-to-beating-the-popes-ass-1708786657

Rick Santorum—a rust-belted Pittsburgher who has embraced the Petrine church ever since he stopped being pro-choice in his first congressional election—is smeared in penitence and frothy with faith, and he will show this pontiff who’s supreme.

Santorum has challenged leftist Pope Francis to stick to photo ops in the Basilica after the Bishop of Rome mouthed off about the un-Christianness of messing up Earth’s environmental health. Via HuffPo:

Santorum, a devout Catholic, told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano on Monday that the pope should “leave science to the scientists.”

His comments come as the pope, who earned a master’s degree in chemistry before turning to the priesthood, becomes increasingly vocal about climate change. Pope Francis is preparing a groundbreaking encyclical to be released in the coming weeks that’s expected to make the case that taking action to fight climate change is a moral and religious imperative.

loool

Leave science to the scientists?! That's rich, coming from Santorum!

Can I join the Catholic Church just long enough to petition for Santorum's excommunication?

His comments come as the pope, who earned a master’s degree in chemistry before turning to the priesthood, becomes increasingly vocal about climate change.

I MEAN COME ON

Someone, no doubt in the Curia, has leaked Francis' climate change encyclical. Better than poisoning him, I guess. And the Catholic prez candidates are already dithering and objecting.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/pope-francis-destruction-ecosystem-leaked-encyclical

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/17/jeb-bush-pope-climate-change_n_7603160.html

Are we going to wind up with a Church of America out of this when the Republicatholics decide they can't abide this liberal science pope?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122056/last-time-conservatives-dismissed-major-encyclical-it-ended-terribly

didn't know Jeet Heer wrote actual essays, thought he was just a high value tweeter

that's a good story

thanks

that was a good article

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122061/pope-franciss-vision-moral-ecology-will-challenge-both-parties

Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex
These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture.

Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

I cant wait to see Jeb! take a strong position. Dude has basically said Catholicism is his preferred blend of Jeezo worship because of its special blend of herbs and spices. Now he has to essentially publicly denounce the head of the aforementioned chicken soup for his soul.

lol is that pile of filth one real

Pope Francis: Society is in the gutter

Account must also be taken of the pollution produced by residue, including dangerous waste present in different areas. Each year hundreds of millions of tons of waste are generated, much of it non-biodegradable, highly toxic and radioactive, from homes and businesses, from construction and demolition sites, from clinical, electronic and industrial sources. The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

There's some wtf moments in that encyclical about A/C and cars and shit. Take my car but you'll have to pry the A/C from my cold dead hands.

Alfred 'Freon' Heston

Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex 35m35 minutes ago
A decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development.

Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex 2h
Leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and foremost, up to us.

Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex 3h3 hours ago
The world we have received also belongs to who will follow us. #LaudatoSi

Morbs, it amuses me that you give this man, the head of an organization that has covered up for pedos and warned women of contraceptives for decades, the benefit of the doubt when he gets in front of the podium and not Barack Husein Obama.

I don't give any benefits, get in the cheese line.

(also Il Papa is an unelected authoritarian, albeit one without an army)

the United States Government is an org has quite a history of coverups and some crimes they are willing to take credit for that I can fax to you.

You don't say! Hold up, I'll give you my PO box.

Since when is the Pope "unelected"? Just 'cause you didn't get a vote...

yes, be a card

PF a better propagandist against climate change than President Gas has been for 6.5 years

"Better" how? In the sense of "more likely to have his empty rhetoric actually lead to concrete action"? Not fucking likely. Nobody listens to the Pope about anything. They just smile (or grimace) and (rhetorically) pat him on the head and go about their business. He's got all the power and influence of the Dalai Lama; he's a photo op.

I'm never clear on whether the Pope is the leader of one of the oldest and widest spread organisations in the world, who is responsive for all kinds of things including AIDS in Africa and overpopulation, or if he is just a soft, impotent do-hooded who moons listens to anyway.

Do-gooder, who no one listens to

Nobody listens to Obama about anything, but that's a small victory

and again, concrete action doesn't matter as it's too late

If you want empty rhetoric to lead to concrete action in this world prepare to get in a very long line.

誤訳侮辱, Bill McKibben seems to think there's power and influence

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/two_cheers_for_pope_francis_im_no_fan_of_the_catholic_church_but_the_climate_movement_needs_it/

Well, Bill McKibben - he would know. I mean, his books sell in the hundreds of copies.

who are you, again?

someone who doesn't see the difference in trading one purported moral witness for another