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I don’t care for Christianity, but god I’d love it to see a black pope emerge, just to see the White Power writhes and scream.

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Those white power redneck types are all protestants (baptists, or some other evangelical wingnut strain) and most of them have a vehement anti-Catholic streak. A black pope would just confirm to them whatever-the-hell conspiracy shit they already believe about the Catholic church, so it’d more or less just be spitting on a forest fire anyways.

Not that the Vatican shouldn’t do it anyway, though.

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I’d say most of them are protestants, but there’s been a trend of a certain type of far-right “RETVRN TO TRADITION” wingnuts converting and becoming hardline tradcaths in the last decade or so. Those people absolutely would seethe over a black pope.

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I loved the twist ending in Conclave.

Please, do not reply with spoilers.

EDIT: I did this to myself.

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Snape kills Dumbledore

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romans kill jesus

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If someone drops into St. Peter’s Square with a parachute, I win $3,000.

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Nazis and KKK members already hate Catholics.

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I was really hoping for turkson

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Pope Trump would be more likely

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I just learned that there is a Cardinal Pizzaballa from Italy that is on the short list of expected potential popes. On name alone, I hope he wins. I know he won’t be called Pope Pizzaballa, but in my heart that is what he’d be known as, spoken in the most Super Mario type accent imaginable

Edit: Sorry, not sorry, I couldn’t help myself, you who are now perusing this thread have to see it as well

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As far as I’m aware there is no rule he can’t pick his own name as his pope name, should he want to be cool.

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They love their ancient traditions, some of which significantly predate Christianity.

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Pope Pizzaballs

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Pizza the Pope

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Should have photoshopped on the hat

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This is my favorite comment on this thread

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But you do have to pronounce it in Italian so it’ll probably be Papa Pizzaballahs.

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Poopoopeepeepizzaballs

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Time to deliver a pizza ball! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOkeLQohC0

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I know its pronounced Pizzaballa, but in my head it’s Pizza (techno air horns) BAWWWWWLAH!

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Is that an official campaign poster?

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I legitimately thought they were joking when they mentioned the name on TV just now.

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In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

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This is going to be a tough conversation when they call. The farm takes up most of my day and at night I like a cup of tea, I might not be able to devote myself full time to being Pope.

Edit: that was easier than I thought it would be. They called and I told them straight up I didn’t have time to be pope. They said they figured I would turn them down so they had a guy from Chicago as a back up.

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I hope to be co-Pope to help the Pope cope.

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If they pick a dope, you’ll need to help the dope pope cope as a co-pope.

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I can confirm this is true. Word is they’re pretty disappointed.

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Yeah! The world’s largest cult has a new guru!

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The world’s largest religious denomination is Sunni Islam with 22.39% of the world’s population (as of 2020). Catholic Christianity comes in a distant second with 15.88%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_denomination

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Too many cults to keep track of, they are all brainrot

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Sunni day, pushin’ the clouds away…. o/~

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Who’s their leader?

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