Multipope! Multipope!
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Worlds dyingest religious leader considering repeating the Western Schism of 1378 as farce, increasing the number of popes believed illegitimate by 150%.
What if we just make everyone Pope so we can all go home?
:posting:
They never actually finished the palais des papes IIRC, maybe they could as a public works program and install a couple people as popes in there.
French neoliberals will replace retirement with rotating spells as the anti-pope
Death to America
Absolutely insulting proverbial backhand to the indigenous leaders he just met with. Might as well have just said nothing will fundamentally change.
I don't think that is a particularly fair analysis.
His health hasn't been doing great and people were speculating he might choose to resign before the trip.
He has just appointed several new cardinals and is overseeing the synod of synodality with the goal of a less centralized and global church.
I don't see how you can read the statement as some kind of surrender to the tradcaths and an abandonment of indigenous people, when if anything him saying "you can change the Pope" is them saying "this process can and will continue without me"Less centralisation doesn't strike me as a good way to clean up the "church is full of pedos" problem. Seems more like a way of shifting blame, but that won't matter to the general public.
I don't know about that from my understanding a lot of the coverups were driven from senior vatican officials
Right. But I don't think that will stop it happening in the first place. It'll just allow senior levels to blame the local branches without actually solving the issue which will continue to remain because these people are attracted to the church as a place they can access children from a position of authority and community trust.
Yeah, that's fair. I noticed how many old articles there were when I tried looking this up. I guess I'm just cynical about the longevity of his influence, but I didn't know about the Cardinal appointments so thanks for dispelling some great man theory.
If The Satanic Temple ever votes on an antipope I'm throwing my hat in the ring.
Man they're just going to bring in an ultra-conservative if that happens. Really going to break the hearts of liberal Catholics
maybe but Pope Francis didn't get elected by accident either
so we could have the first holy threesome?
or i guess 2nd after god, mary, and joseph
I couldn't remember who the other living pope was. I had no clue at all...
Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the church and the sovereign of the Vatican city state from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict chose to be known by the title "pope emeritus" upon his resignation.
He was also the guy in charge of the cover-up of child abuse
We think there is a property of a small percentage of pope's that prevented them from being destroyed by antipopes. We call this the Papal Infallibility Hypothesis.
