with Pope Francis, as with Joe Biden, my frustrations are many but I have NO NOTES when he goes into straight-up “fuck you” mode and I think we’d all like him better if he did it more often
his campaign to dick over all the far right wing cardinals who try and sabotage him brings me real joy
excommunicating the fuckers who won’t respect your duly elected authority because you want to use it on behalf of people they hate, and who have forfeited their right to power because they’re using it to undermine progress, is the energy I wish Democrats would take into the White House JUST ONCE
I think the thing I respect about this the most is the acknowledgment that it’s the cardinal saying “Pope Francis isn’t a real pope because he’s too liberal for my personal tastes” that broke the norms, which means taking action is not just acceptable but the only way to defend the norms
obviously like your mileage may vary as to your own feelings about what those norms ARE (mine, too, are complicated!), but I wish that this energy was transferable to things like impeaching corrupt justices or firing congressional reps who supported an insurrection
dear sir, or madam, you are no longer an archbishop. The reason you are no longer an archbishop is because you are no longer a member of this church at all have fun in hell bitch.
That guy was also accusing the pope of knowing all about the sex abusers. Which he probably does. They've been shielding them for decades (centuries). I can't cheer for either party here.
That statement when Kissinger died was truly magnificent.
Also, I think the fact that Viganò didn’t show up to his final hearing/meeting made the decision. Even showing up and being combative would have been better for his case than not going at all.
the fact the pope stance is "Yes the gays are living in sin and going to hell, but stop throwing rocks at them" is considered too far for them is....well saying a lot.
Christians seem to get really uptight when they are told to leave the judging to God and to focus on what God told them to do (care for the less-fortunate) for some reason.
Yet they will eat pork and wear underwear with elastic bands because that was "ceremonial law," itself a dubiously biblical doctrine that excuses their impiety when it becomes inconvenient.
Bad men make bad religions.
I knew things had gotten bad when I somehow ended up on Catholic tiktok and it's mostly filled with cradle Catholics yelling at trad cath converts that they were doing too much.
Trad Cath converts really need to learn that they can't replace the Protestant Bible with Benedict XVI's corpse and instead learn to embrace the vibes.
The schadenfreude I felt as I read this headline.
Fucking hardliners like this scare the fuck outta me & have largely fueled my personal split with the Church. (Obvi, there's more nuance, but yeah.)
