Not nearly as scandalous as all the kids his employees have raped.
By employees, I mean priests. Who used their position of trust to groom kids.
Priorities, amirite?
And I would like to point out that the "cool pope" doesn't think sexual assault of children should be reported to the police.
Yup.
I don’t think the pope cares so much about doing the right thing, as trying to reform the church before it dies off. LGBTQ and tolerance is the least offensive thing to reform- in terms of maintaining their power base.
Exactly, the hypocrisy is thick as molasses.
Yes, but those priests are wearing dresses. No wonder they're lacking morale /s
Treating a Sex worker with respect who do they think they are? Jesus?
The church needs to follow the teachings of brown Jesus more and white Jesus less.
This should show everyone that the PR Pope is nothing but empty promises and hollow platitudes. He goes on tv and tells everyone that the church is now accepting, and that lgbt people are welcome, etc. But in action, they continue to be hateful, homophobic, bigots. And that was always the plan, say nice things, do the opposite. You think Catholics are hateful in America? Go to the third world and see how progressive and accepting Catholics are of others, they're not, at all.
You think an entire org that's thousands of years old, has immeasurable wealth, that is spread across the whole earth, is inherently conservative, has a distributed power structure and many internal schisms among its Billion followers, is going to turn on a dime because its nominal leader made some edicts of kindness towards the disenfranchised in the last few months?
The fact that you think that because everyone hasent fallen in line after the Pope said a few words means the Pope was secretly lying is nutty.
Ain't no one, no matter how high the hat, gonna turn an org like the Catholic Church around overnight. JC themselves could roll down from on high and proclaim that "trans souls are the glorified of heaven" and there would still be bitter bitches like this pastor complaining about fantastic people.
Are you 15? The pope is one guy in an organisation filled with centennial old politics. Nobody's expecting the entire church to change overnight.
See I thought their religion was about god and the Pope is the representative of their god's word. If that's not the case, then what's the fucking point of him or any of it? Clearly they're a corporation then, if their own doctrine and leader doesn't sway them
But Catholic church, if you keep being total backwards dicks to people won't you eventually destroy the very . . .
Nevermind.
Huh, well someone let saint vitalis know he can fuck off I guess.
But doesn't mention actual scandals that have happened under him
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