• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    Gfdi. I’m not religious, but knowing that Catholics are going to choose a new Pope, I can only look forward to more bad news of comformity to godawful world news in the form of a shitty New Pope who inspires and empowers all the shitty people.

    Great, one more thing to make the world even worse.

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      54 minutes ago

      My sincere hope is that the Catholic Church looks at how they were perceived under Benedict—a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance; and how they were perceived under Francis—an actually compassionate and humble servant of the Church and its people. And based on that, they choose another Pope who’s in the same vein as Francis to continue bringing the Church into this century. There is still decades of work to be done, but we absolutely can’t go backwards right now.

    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      There’s some hope… part of Francis’ papacy involved him promoting more open-minded cardinals (who are the ones who choose popes) but we’ll see

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        17 minutes ago

        Battle Pope! With flying “Rocket Papal Punch” action! Only $12.25 at your nearest Vatican.

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      3 hours ago

      Im waiting for all the articles whe we he said something nice about gay people, so hes super progressive and we should be nice to the church cause they like us

      Only to go to the comments where someone points out the next sentence he said was we are still going to hell