So, this is basic confirmation that the Vatican believes America is in decline? They apparently have some policy of not electing popes from superpower states.
<Trump's appointee to the White House Commission on Religious Liberty said this the other day:
>Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church.
I will take this guy's word he says the new pope is open minded and he loves him being picked. He is a huge advocate for LGBT people the one saying this
I am not going to depend on some 2012 quote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Martin_(priest)>>2258715hello joe biden
it's me
zelenskyy
i need 5 billion priestly hands
so i can touch
donbass children
slava ukraini
>>2259131he allowed one to be sent to a childrens school, according to wikipedia (probably bullshit)
that's fucked up but hardly makes himself one too
>>2259106Milei has joined to the coaltrain.
Watch with care, no one wants to be Vanced
>>2259264The Chinese Century?
Nay, the Chicago Century!
>>2259340Am I wrong in estimating that 99% of those comments are made by Americans traumatized by Evangelikkkals
It may come as a surprise, but you won't see the Catholic Church saying outrageous shit like school shootings are God's punishment for the gays
>>2259291peruvian tho
they can form form a Milei-Leo XIV pact and split chile
>>2259397Marx & Engels had sus takes on colonialism in their early writings too, then changed their stances.
The Catholic Church only apologized for Galileo in 1992, about 350 years after he was arrested.
Burguers can't conceal their protestant seething at the least fake church even when pretending to be communists, sad!
>>2259094homophobe much?
>>2259616I didn't say that
I said he was promoting the social aspects of it.
>>2259398you seem to think I'm defending religion as being not reactionary. I'm just telling you they change over time. Not necessarily for the better or the worse. This is incredibly obvious if you studied religion even a little bit.
>they hold onto the same book foreveryeah but they barely pay attention to that. religions are practice first belief second. to stop the muslim countries from secularizing the way the christian countries did, western countries had to arm and back salafists and wahabists all through the 20th century. as for their books… like even those aren't permanent. there's constant debates over translation, interpretation. some books are considered "apocrypha." some books are added and removed depending on the sect. The books of the old testament themselves weren't written all at once, they were compiled over centuries during the iron age and there was a lot of infighting in judaism over which books should even be canon in the old testament. all abrahamic religions also have mystic offshoots like gnosticism, kaballah, sufism, etc. Like just study religion a little, not even as a devotee and you'd see they're constantly changing. this isn't a defense of religion, I'm telling you to understand your enemy.
>>2259567Pedophiles or Nazis….who to believe….
How about both get the gullotine
>>2259617>treating the 'social' in a vacuumFucking retard.
>>2259656>leftypol>it's anything but communistsAight.
>>2259660It's as I said in another thread:
/leftypol/ once again debates if a mildly progressive liberal by burger standard is worth simping for, while simultaneously having to reconcile their hatred for liberals who share 99% of their beliefs with said liberal
>Liberals at the head of reactionary institutions: Human face of a monstrous system, impotent at best and future fascists at worst<Liberals at the head of a reactionary institution, but they have a funny hat: Misunderstood sympathetic visionaries, practically socialists that we need to change our framework for >>2259937Everything has been integrated into the bourgeois order.
The really existing communist movement is bourgeois by that metric.
>>2259961>Doesn't post the one serving the stewAlso, he was responsible for recommending the cessation of the bishop of Piura, Eguren for being involved in land trafficking. Taking land from the campesinos/farmers to speculate with rich boogies (the sodalite)
https://peru21.pe/peru/caso-sodalicio-papa-francisco-expulsa-monsenor-eguren-y-nueve-integrantes-mas/Once again, I recommend to everyone interested on reading on the Sodalite saga, for once an ending that is satisfactory
>>2259983Literally a uygha.
>His mother was the daughter of Louisiana Creole parents, Joseph Martínez from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,[9] and Louise Baquié from New Orleans, who were of African, French, and Spanish descent.[4] Martínez was of mixed Afro-Haitian descent, and Baquié was a mixed-race Black Creole.That's not White even in muttmerica.
>>2260071Most non-profits are just dcams to enrich the people who run the non-profit as well. Ok fine, not bourgeois, lumpenrole then.
>WASHINGTON (CNS) – Two popes and multiple priests, cardinals and archbishops received part of $600,000 in financial gifts from former Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, who controlled a discretionary fund, according to a report published Dec. 27 by The Washington Post.
>The newspaper said that, through interviews and access to financial records, it determined that over a period of two decades, McCarrick drew on the "Archbishop's Special Fund" account set up at the Archdiocese of Washington, where he was the archbishop from 2001 until 2006. Though the majority of the $6 million the fund raised in almost two decades went to charities, many priests and more than 60 cardinals and archbishops benefited from it, the newspaper reported.
>"Several of the more than 100 recipients were directly involved in assessing misconduct claims against McCarrick, documents and interviews show," the Post story said.
>During that time, McCarrick sent $90,000 to Pope John Paul II and $291,000 to Pope Benedict XVI from the account, which the newspaper describes as having little oversight and having amassed donations from influential donors, including President Donald Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry; novelist Mary Higgins Clark; John B. Hess, chief executive the Hess Corp. oil company; and a foundation run by Francis Rooney, politician and former U.S. Ambassador to Vatican. >>2260086Anything short of communism is bourgeois, now shut the fuck up
>>2260089"Non-profits" are indeed bourgeois, because someone owns them. Like private property. That's, again, not the Catholic church.
>>2260096>"Non-profits" are indeed bourgeois, because someone owns them.That is not how a non-profit works you idiot. What do you think the opposite of
>>2260071>"for-profit", Is?
>>2260100Okay, I'm an idiot, I thought the Gates Foundation was how non-profits worked. But now I find out it is not considered a non-profit.
Are non-profits bourgeois though? Not communist yes, but that doesn't automatically make something bourgeois. Lumpen? That's a term that gets thrown around without much definition.
>>2259266Not all of us do. We view you as ontologically incorrect, but are willing to close ranks with you when we have common cause, such as helping the poor, stopping wars, or denouncing genocide.
Francis is giving Communion to Mao in paradise.
>>2260875Lemme check the Book of Grudges
>Vatican supported and funded SolidarnośćWell, there you go.
>>2259959Communists and communism as it exists now, not the abstract ideal of communism. We have not created a new system, so we are very much inside and integrated into the bourgeois system.
Your distinction is a purely moralistic one. "We don't count because we're the good guys fighting back."
This is the pope's Duolingo account.
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/drprevostHis longest streak without a lapse was almost 570 days.
>>2263896>national liberation movements of Palestine These national "liberation" movements are bourgeois-led and suppress the working class masses of Palestine.
>Russia's communist movements attempting to crush Ukrainian fascism. Russia is a capitalist country waging war to control the markets of Ukraine and defend the interests of its ruling class.
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