He is no Christian.
MAGA.
I see this as a step in the right direction, culturally.
Wait? Slavery is bad now?? When did that happen? Fracking woke mob 😤
I will die on the hill of “any given Pope deserves a beating on general principles”. This one I hate the least so far.
Tim Minchin said it best.
Played this for a coworker who’s agressively Catholic. He was not amused. So, i hit him with the ol’ Bill Hicks: " forgive me." He was very not amused. 5/7, would repeat.
leo’s own family history includes enslaved people ? how ? and where ? he’s white !
You can’t always tell someone’s ancestry from their appearance. Plenty of white/white-passing people, especially in the Americas, have recent black ancestors. Take this Appalachian community, for example.
According to genealogical research published by Henry Louis Gates Jr., 17 of Leo’s American ancestors were Black, listed in census records as mulatto, Black, Creole or a free person of color. His family tree includes slaveholders and enslaved people, Gates wrote in The New York Times.
Whites have been slaves for a long time. You can start with reading up the history of the Irish.
Yes , so as in the Roman period but the pope is American , and unless he can track his family record 600 years in behind it is unlikely the any of them were slaves
I mean come on , white slaves ? in the new world ?
If they’re just getting around to this, I guess it means a few hundred more years before they stop raping kids.
No the rape is structural, not doctrinal and only doctrine is on the table.
They could drop the priest celibacy rule, seeing as now there’s a system in place to prevent priests from passing on land to their heirs instead of to the church (because they never take ownership of the church land like they did in older times). Then the priests could have relationships with equals (if that’s even possible with the cult aspect, though still better if it’s with adults rather than kids) to address their hormones and loneliness.
The church administration owes both the priests and communities an apology over that BS, all done in the first place because of institutional greed and lust for power. Though that might require admitting that they just make shit up on the religion side to justify policies made for the business side.
Note that saying the priests are owed an apology doesn’t shift any blame for the actions that some of them did. It’s placing extra blame for the system itself on the church, which also caused suffering for the priests that didn’t decide to do fucked up things to kids they had power over.
Not into popes as a general rule, but happy to see Chi-town Leo bagging some hits.
