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The Pope calling it like it is. Christian conservative leaders in the US are way to focused on politics instead of their faith and the spiritual well being of their parish.

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Not like the pope doesn’t dabble in politics every once in a while…

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Every single thing is political. Feeding the homeless is political. Killing murderers is political. Raising children is political.

Stop. Just … stop. EVERYTHING is political because ANYTHING can be made in to a law.

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Religion is just a glorified book club though. Feels like we should’ve drawn the line there a while ago.

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And now conservative America will say the Pope is no longer Catholic

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They already do

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Now? They’ve been doing that for almost a century my dude. Millions of ex-Catholics believe the last legit pope was the nazi ally one: Pious XII

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That sounds like the name of a starship.

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That’s a really old accusation made since the 60s I think.

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The 1460s

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Good. One down. Please, Pope Francis, get rid of Cardinal Woelki next.

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Never heard is name before? What’s his deal? I can just search his name but I’d figure I’d give anyone the chance to say something.

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He is the Cardinal of the archdiocese of Cologne in Germany. He made a seriously bad figure with regards to investigations intosexual abuse by priests and is a serious opponent of any change in the church.

There is an old contract between the church and the state in Germany. One provision in this contract is that priests in the archdiocese are only to be trained at Bonn University. He considered this “to worldly” and tried to set up a more conservative seminary from a number of funds designed for totally other purposes and in breach with this old contract that might put the whole role of the catholic church in German society into turmoil.

Many lay people but also members of the church want him gone ASAP. People turn their backs to him in church when he preaches. And thousands of people leave the catholic church primarily because of him.

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He’s a rapper, one of his famous songs is ‘Bitch I’m a Pope.’

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Yeah? Well I’m going to start my own Vatican! With Blackjack! And hookers! Different hookers!

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Okay, Henry the VIII

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Maybe at least 18+ hookers this time?

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Common

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I think all you need to know about this guy is the Vatican asked him to resign a few days ago and he said no. You do not say to no to that sort of thing! He absolutely knew they would remove him and instead of going quietly he said no to make it a big thing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him running for office, or starting his own break off sect of “true Catholics” soon. Good riddance.

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