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The Catholic church will elect another magical thinker in chief and he’ll carry on peddling magical thinking. What else could happen?
Honestly? Depending on the mood among the current leadership we could get someone far more regressive causing more unrest in the world. So this is more important than you might think.
American Catholics have been having serious infighting trying to square trumpism with the Catholic Church’s social justice message, especially Francis’s stronger emphasis on it. An archbishop was excommunicated just last year for schism.
as a person raised in what was a very conservative catholic household in latin america, I feel like there is a new wave of very reactionary catholicism coming from the US that makes the Opus Dei or Legionaireslook like reasonable people.
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I agree, I worked for Catholics for a few years and there are so many people just itching for a new pope to reverse ideologies so they can be more mad and racist and judgy and be justified for it. Not all, but many.
plot twist: They announce “okay, was a good run. Shut it all down, we’re done”
* gruff New Jersey accent * Pack it in, boys!
Nah, no way. Their scam has been working great for over two millenia. Why would they give it up?
There are currently 252 Catholic cardinals, but only 135 are eligible to cast ballots as those over the age of 80 can take part in debate but cannot vote.
You’re telling me the Catholic church has more term limits than the US Supreme Court?
Weirdly enough, they might even be less corrupt too.
Hopefully, Interpol catches JD Vance?
To answer the question in the title: my money’s on an old white man with homophobic and misogynistic tendencies.
Ehrm…another pope?
They should unmothball Benedict XVI: he’s uniquely qualified to deal with Donald Trump, being a former Hitler Youth.
I am no fan of the Catholic Church, but the Hitler youth pot shot people take at him is ridiculous. All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.
Know what was far worse? Not dealing with the pedophile problem/policy of shuffling priests around after it was well known. Though I hold JPII way more responsible for that, which catholics really do not like because he is already legendary among them.
All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.
Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.
B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.
My mistake I misread your tone then. It just felt like a cheap pot shot about the Hitler youth thing.
they would need to do more than that, since he is dead.
Surely he can be resurrected: the Christian faith is big on magical stuff like that.
Papa V Perpetua
I believe Ralph Fiennes has to navigate a Catholic-flavoured Game of Thrones so that a surprise candidate from Mexico can get the job
Requiescat in pace.
New pope /thread
Just listen to Pitura Freska, my peers. We need a black pope.
I’m not Catholic any more, for decades, but it was nice to know the pope was from my “turf” of the world instead of yet another European. Plus he was considerably humbler than other popes, the instructions for his own burial are a good example. (In fact a lot of people I know get surprised when you mention that he was a Jesuit instead of a Franciscan. Not just because of his papal name - but because all that “think on the poor” discourse is extremely Franciscan.)
His Easter 2025 message is worth a read, regardless of religion.
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, I hope.
And that is not a joke, that is the legal name of the best cardinal for the job
Now somebody needs to kidnap Jude Law and keep him in a basement until after the white smoke.
