God I love how this throws a wrench into Magaland in general and the SCOTUS in particular.
Howso? Especially the SCOTUS part?
There’s a conspicuous amount of conservative Catholics on the SCOTUS. With the pope potentially putting Trump on blast, they’re going to struggle to serve two masters.
Or Pope Leo will give them an out to unwind the situation they’ve put themselves in.
It is funny to read from the comments here and elsewhere on Lemmy how Trump and MAGA are managing to lower “left-leaning” expectations in the USA in almost every domain.
It’s all practically “oh this guy is not batshit crazy and/or inbred and/or billionaire so he’s fine”.
I see dark times ahead for you guys.
Allow a humble Roman to explain the very simple rule he was taught by his mother at a very young age:
“If you see a dark dot appearing at the horizon, shoot. It’s either a priest or a fascist”
“If you see a dark dot appearing at the horizon, shoot. It’s either a priest or a fascist”
Wait, you guys have guns?
Maybe some people realize that an imperfect ally is not an enemy?
I can easily imagine how much worse it would be if a super conservative and psychopathic Pope had been chosen. Can you picture how much worse it would be if the past tweets from the chosen Pope were on the tune of “LGBT is a sin” and “To Caesar what belongs to the Caesar, you shall not illegally inhabit another people’s land”?
The world is circling the drain, anything not pushing us in is good news
Pope Leo XIV?
More like Pope Leo Trotsky, am I right?Make Apostleship Great Again
Always amusing watching cultists eat each other.
Interesting place to find an Oblivion review.
The new pope has said he is against fascism and couchfucking. They are going to try to kill him for sure.
I’m in favor of couchfucking over the usual fucking that the Catholic church defends.
This might be an unpopular comment, but what exactly is uplifting about this? And I guess you could call it new information, but it’s not really news though. Nothing personal, but I feel this doesn’t belong here.
No, you’re absolutely right. This isn’t the first propaganda piece that’s been posted here recently.
The uplifting part is how the news media will now stop breathlessly babbling about smoke and how a new pope hasn’t been selected yet.
Anti trump so uplifting for some people. I think this community should ban political posts.
I don’t judge them, they can cheer all they want but rather not here tbh
The guy is not nearly as liberal as Francis.
Also, do Catholics in the US know that criticising the Pope is literal heresy?
criticising the Pope is literal heresy
If that’s the case, then I’m a herr-uh-TIC!
Are you a Catholic?
Are Catholics criticizing the pope though ? I thought it was 99% evangelists doing the hatin’
I mean Jesus himself was something like a communist, wasn’t he? He also was an immigrant. Never understood how US christianity could distance themselves so far from their own believes.
The bible is woke af
The Gospels are pretty woke. The bible is a mixed bag of good and really bad shit. And ends with an acid dream/nightmare.
So many Christians look at the bible and decide they want to be the Roman Empire.
For all intents and purposes, the religious right in America puts forward what I call “Supply Side Jesus”, who is whiter and not so troublingly ‘political’ as he is in the Bible
https://imgur.com/gallery/gospel-of-supply-side-jesus-bCqRp
This always makes me laugh
Now animated!
Why do they think this is about them? Francis was popular. The Catholic Church is going to go with a choice that maintains or increases their membership, regardless of what MAGA thinks. High odds they looked at their short list and picked the most appealing guy, to that end, after Francis.
And yet, MAGA thinks this is about them which is delusional at best.
I’ve not heard much about the new Pope and I already like him.
Hold your horses. He is no Trumpist, but he is in my view a fairly average Pope, and opposes abortion, euthanasia, etc… still pretty damn conservative.
I sure do hope his appointment wasn’t through corruption and bribery of cardinals by Trump…
Though, why should we care what a few insane (possibly protestant) people think about the appointment of a Catholic pope?
It’s time to deplatform those. We don’t need to give idiots attention, because they cry for it.
“In 2000, Prevost allowed Father James Ray, an Augustinian priest, to reside at St. John Stone Friary in Chicago. Ray had been suspended from public ministry since 1991 due to credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors. Although the priory was close to a Catholic elementary school, Prevost did not notify the school administration about Ray. The Augustinians noted that Ray was assigned a monitor while at St. John Stone. Ray was moved to a different residence in 2002 when the US Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted stricter rules for handling priests accused of abusing minors.”
The augustinians, led by him at one point, have continued to lack transparency, only last year finally releasing a list of offenders 20 years later (which omitted members whose accusers did not meet “their standards”)
Also choice quotes from him:
“Something that needs to be said also is that ordaining women—and there’s been some women that have said this interestingly enough—‘clericalizing women’ doesn’t necessarily solve a problem, it might make a new problem,”
“In a 2012 address to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.” He cited the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
As bishop in Chiclayo, a city in northwestern Peru, he opposed a government plan to add teachings on gender in schools. “The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist,” he told local news media.”
Yeah, super likable
I like Francis more then…
He’s still a registered republican and doesn’t support gay marriage or women in higher positions within the church.
They are mostly bizzaro Christians anyway, no wonder they hate the pope when the pope actually had to do decades of dedication to functional charitable efforts to improve people’s lives.
Not that there aren’t a lot of really crazy Catholics out there, but the real core of MAGA lunatics is evangelical protestants
There’s a whole lot of different sects and philosophies in that category, but you can pretty much trace them all back to someone who basically said “fuck the Pope” and went off to start their own church.
So needless to say a lot of them aren’t too keen on any pope at all.
I must say that even Catholics in the USA have strange stuff going on that makes them not the same as what we experience in Europe.
Even the rite allows for drinking from the same cup as well as the wafer and Christian Rock in front of the altar.
At least this was true in the early 2000s in Aurora, Colorado.
Outside of Catholicism I’m like “who cares?” People have a lot of time to chime in about a religion they’re not part of.
When most western governments are still highly influenced by the Catholic church, even atheists need to pay attention to who the pope is.
Silly Evangelicals, you don’t get a say in it.
All but a handful of Catholics don’t have a say in it either.
If Jesus came back MAGA would denounce him hard.
