The pope is dead

The pope is having breathing problems (a tube down his throat, apparatively), which would interfere with the administration of a certain herbal palliative. But he is also on a feeding tube, so other...treatments could be administered that way.

that made snot come out my nose. well done.

I had that stuck in my head out of nowhere the other day!

http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/pope-dan.jpg

Apparently, according to every news network, this is 1/10000000 th as important as Terri Schiavo kicking the bucket.

Not trying to stir shit, just curious.

And leaving the devil's service is never easy.

Yes and no. The point you're going for here (reverse racism, 'oh, it's OK to make fun of white/European religious leaders') is a non-starter, I think.

Fewer westerners are familiar with big-time leaders of Islam or Hinduism, so you're not going to be bombarded with it 24/7 and there will be fewer jokes (most Terri Schiavo/Pope jokes are driven by the constant and frustrating media barrage). And more than a few westerners would dance with glee at the news of any Islamic religious leader in pain.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/03/30/international/gay.xlaerge1.jpg

thx

All that cheesy homophobia, hasn't lasted well.

x-post

In the slave girl, outfit, natch.

Kinda lol but mostly blud

not even the funniest pope story of the day

No he isn't

Pope rallies from knee pain to proclaim 10 new saints https://t.co/8X8CemOmsS

— The Independent (@Independent) May 15, 2022

is that Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome?

The Pope Emeritus isn't even dead yet! He kinda looked like he was though, even during his papacy.

https://lapsi.al/2023/08/27/rama-zbulon-pa-dashje-foton-qe-mban-ne-ekranin-e-kompjuterit-te-tij/

Albanian PM Rama inadvertently reveals desktop wallpaper of meteorite striking pope

Thought this would be about that Argentine Bolsonaro wannabe that The Guardian is publicising for some reason

pictures of popes gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

The plural of Pope is "peeps"

Getting ready.

double pneumonia? ahhh it's like a case of the fucking sniffles to a superannuated pope!

Next guy's obviously going to be some anti-woke hardliner.

https://preview.redd.it/fydbxsrs6cq91.jpg?auto=webp&s=e9082e57e2b80376ca937168810cea17db99e1cf

The Conclave/A Complete Unknown sequel ready to go.

elon/trump killed him

Israel more like

Next guy's obviously going to be some anti-woke hardliner.

Probably. We were actually lucky that Benedict resigned, he was really awful, but it wouldn't surprise me if they picked someone just as bad, if not worse, next time around.

Singing thread title to the tune of "The Queen is Dead."

Maybe the US will buy the Vatican and install ... oh, let's just say I can think of a good candidate for Pope.

Biden is even too old and decrepit to be a Pope.

Gauntlet thrown, put his name in the hat with the others!

JD Vance wants the job, he absolutely knows what's best for Catholics since he converted...(checks notes)...five and a half years ago.

Thinking about this post on r/oscarrace from nine days ago:

"In a completely hypothetical scenario, if the Pope were to die in the next few days, would Conclave emerge as the frontrunner for BP?"

What a stupid question

It is, but I'm wondering about that too

Make Anora pope.

xp I guess since the voting ends today maybe not

its a collection of disinterested and utterly disconnected weirdos selecting a winner that nobody cares about in 2025

and then there's conclave etc

Probably. We were actually lucky that Benedict resigned, he was really awful, but it wouldn't surprise me if they picked someone just as bad, if not worse, next time around.

Apparently Francis has spent the last few years stocking the College of Cardinals precisely to keep this from happening.

I'm kinda thinking that all the weirdo US adult converts to Catholicism (JD Vance, Ross Douthat, various other psychos) are gonna stage a schism and choose an antipope for the Orthodox True Catholic Church of the Mighty and Most Holy USA, or whatever they decide to call themselves.

not all of them are converts— my mom’s oldest friend, long despised by my father and i for being a pretentious conservative hellmouth, is all in on Trump and loathes Francis.

(and she was raised Catholic, she and my mom went to Hallahan together) (that’s the good girls Catholic school in Philly, fwiw)

This pope was marginally better than Benedict.

This Pope took courageous and unpopular positions throughout his tenure. He wasn’t perfect — he was the patriarch of the catholic church — but his message was one of inclusivity and compassion. If he passes away due to this illness he will be missed.

I agree with all of that treeship

My mom’s catholic faith has led her to volunteer her time helping refugees with their asylum applications. This pope represented that type of christian spirit, I felt, way more than the jd vances of the world who care more about conservative politics than the anti-hierarchical message of the gospels.

xxp yeah he stood up to a lot of anti-gay clergy around the world

idk he retracted many of his positions in the last five years. I've read he did a good job of stacking the College of Cardinals with his ilk, so we may not see a counter-reaction when he dies.

yeah that new pre-Vatican Two bullshit, with latin masses etc.. I've heard it described as "Jackie O cosplay"

A good essay: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/colm-toibin/the-bergoglio-smile

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in hospital on Wednesday, a day after he was diagnosed with double pneumonia, saying that she had found him alert and responsive, Reuters reports.

“We joked as always. He hasn’t lost his proverbial sense of humour,” Meloni said in a statement.

The pope of banterbury

who knew the Proverbs could be funny?

"So I sez to the pontiff I sez."

pope francis spencer

just going to add "the proverbial" to random sentences and see how long before someone questions it.

xp some fathers do ave m.

vg