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[–] 199 points 4 months ago* (37 children)

Breaking news: The Pope is still Catholic!

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (23 children)

    And also a pedophile protector. Don't forget the church is full of them.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    All major religions are full of pedophile protectors.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    That's because they're essentially cults

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I'm convinced that the church has always seen the molestation of boys as a recruitment strategy. Most go on with their lives after being abused, but some probably learn to like it, and they stay in the church, and then do it themselves. This has probably been a pattern for literally centuries, and is responsible for a significant number of recruits.

    Celibacy has never been a strong draw, any other strategy that brings in recruits can't be easily dismissed.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Coming up: New report confirms bears shit in the woods

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm getting a breaking report here. Field reporters are telling me, sky blue. I'm not sure what this means, stay tuned for hourly updates

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    From the way he has been talked about on the web for several months you would guess he wasn't

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    When everyone else seems to be in a race to the shitheel bottom, the Catholic Church remaining who they’ve always been feels somewhat better in comparison.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    What did he even say that enticed people?!

    war is bad

    treat people with respect

    What psycho countries do you live in?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    So many people are cowering in the face of this fascist admin that anyone willing to stand up at all is given props by many. Look at Anthropic, they’re shady as hell and people are still gobbling their knobs for at least having some level of standards.

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  • [–] 108 points 4 months ago* (105 children)

    In reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality

    mf saying they want to focus on equality while at the same time saying gay couples blessings, something that would bring EQUALITY, isn’t a priority… make it make sense 🤡

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (72 children)

    They believe marriage is for the sole purpose of procreation, which is their little loophole. They’re so weird about it that I’m surprised they’ve never pushed fertility tests as a pre requisite before allowing a marriage ceremony.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    Then they should dissolve their marriages once their children move out, having fulfilled its only purpose. Staying married after you’re done having kids is lust, pride, and vanity.

    /s

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    If they truly believe that then why are they all celibate? They are chalk full of pedophiles too. Why I hate any post praising the pope. Fucker also lives like a king. Wonder how many of the popes are pedophiles themselves.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Priests cannot marry. Marriage and the Priesthood (Holy Orders) are the only sacraments that are mutually exclusive.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Eastern Catholic priests can marry, actually. There are married Catholic priests out there right now, and not because they converted in from Anglicanism after they married (though those exist, too), but fully cradle Catholics who were married before their vocation. Somehow this has not exploded the church or whatever. It is inconsistent and ridiculous.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Historically the priesthood/other holy orders was a place to toss the weird people or undesirable heirs. It was a convenient way for the gay uncle to have a respectable job and explain why they didn't have a wife. It was also a way to keep pedo types isolated but productive, at least until resources led to many orders dissolving.

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    [–] 77 points 4 months ago (28 children)

    Why would gay couples want to be blessed by a religion that actively demonizes them?

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    [–] 34 points 4 months ago (24 children)

    Am I misreading? leo is saying he does NOT agree with the cardinal saying it's fine for same-sex marriage?

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  • [–] 69 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    Yeah. Cause he's still a homophobic piece of shit, he's just an anti-war homophobic piece of shit. We should not be surprised by this.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    figured as much, i guess. TIL the catholic church is bigoted as fuck. More at ten.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    To his credit he is slightly less homophobic than is the norm for the Catholic Church. But that's kind of like saying someone is less fascist than Mussolini. Objectively better than the alternative, but not actually good.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)
    “The Holy See has made it clear that we do not agree with the formalized blessing of couples, in this case, homosexual couples, as you asked, or couples in irregular situations, beyond what was specifically, if you will, allowed for by Pope Francis in saying all people receive blessings,” he said
    

    Or, without all the fluff

    “The Holy See has made it clear that we do not agree with the formalized blessing of couples ... beyond what was specifically ... allowed for by Pope Francis in saying all people receive blessings,” he said
    

    So if Francis said it was ok; it's fine. But it seems like Francis said it wasn't fine.

    At the same time though, I've started to loose lose trust in media outlets and idk how reputable NewsWeek

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Periodic reminder: the Episcopal Church exists. Has all the rituals and sacraments, the Apostolic Succession, but also ordains women and Queer people to the priesthood and blesses their marriages. The Episcopal Church is present in Germany (part of the Episcopal Church in Europe, formerly known as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe).

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    leader of child rape ring says something scummy.. this is news?

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Of course he is. See, gay couples have less kids, which will further reduce the catholics numbers... cause most religious people were indoctrinated as kids. The number of adults who willingly become catholic if not raised catholic is tiny in comparison. So they need to keep the gays among them pretending to be straight and having kids for show and proof.

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