So far:
I guess it's a start, though I hope he calls them out more directly. He was pretty close to Francis after all, and Francis even donated his popemobile to be turned into a mobile clinic for Gaza (no doubt to draw media attention to what Israel is doing).
What's your stance on protecting pedophiles mr. Pope?
I believe in the power of friendship. Old friends, good friends, true friends who got me here today, friends I can take to the park but not if there are any kids around...
And Xi?
I hope he stays away from stairs and 3rd+story windows
And Vances, but that shouldn't be a problem.
Lmao these fucking memes are never gonna get old
Good lord...
I want to hang it on my wall...
Is there an higher res?
Definitely. At some point 'enhance' kind of stopped being a joke
So AI?
Yeah
Legend.
.ml in disarray.
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
It's cultural jamming, they just argue no matter the detail as their goal isn't intellectual honesty or persuasion, it's disruption of social fabric and generally drowning out any possible consensus.
In their defense, they learned it from watching corporate pr firms, but even those had resource constraints.
Am I wrong?
The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.
Ah yeah, the Cattocomunisti, as we call them in Italy. Too bad there is no such thing in the reality of the application of the Catholic doctrine.
Ffinally! It was shameful how Francis was dancing around the subject, trying REALLY HARD to not name russia as the invader.
wow what a hot take. thank you, religion man
I had to rape 0 children to know that war is actually bad. But glad they figured it out the long way round.
Religious MAGA nutts cry that their leader doesn't believe Ukraine started the war.
Most maga nuts are protestant.
Evangelical, even.
Most maga nuts are ~~protestant~~.
*Anti-christ
They do wear the mark on their foreheads...
Thanks Pope Bob.
all the tankies gunna hate this guy now
depends. If they are nevertheless happy with his social justice policies, they're tankies, if they also hate his social policies anyway, they're just closeted/crypto fascists.
I don't think anyone slightly left will ever be happy with a Pope's social policies because they are inevitably decades or centuries late to adjust to society. Francis started to open on welcoming homosexuals in the church, but he still said it's a sin because any sex outside of mariage is a sin, and gay mariage is not allowed by the church.
Maybe Leo will make some new timid move like "maybe it's not a sin after all, gotta think about it" but nothing revolutionary will happen.
Progressists as defined on Lemmy will never be elected pope.
Yeah, the church will always be a conservative institution, they oppose anything revolutionary. So on a good day they'll take a "shame on you greedy heartless fuckers" approach to politicians and billionaires, but never the Robin Hood approach. But usually on the local level, you'll just get your neighbourhood reactionary priest being a dick.
If any progressive has an opinion on the Catholic Church, it's most likely that is that it should be wholly disbanded, its assets donated to the needy, its relics donated to museums, and its clergy investigated and arrested for crimes against children.
Not much love between the two groups, so imagining some sort of alignment of goals at any point just feels like a waste.
He seems to be better than the last guy when it comes to Russia's war. That guy really thought it was the fault of NATO/Ukraine/whoever...
Not really that they were at fault, per se, he just wrongly assumed a better outcome would come if Ukraine surrendered. Personally, I think that would just give Russia and China the greenlight to expand further and faster.
Pope Francis was a Jesuit. When in 1773 the church dissolve the Jesuit order, many of them fled to Russia, where Catherine the Second gave them hospitality. The order was restored in 1814. Since then, Jesuits have always had a soft spot for Russia.
So does most of the western world, Russia doesn't care.
Most, except the hard right in the West, including Trump and his sycophants.
Such moral courage 🙄
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