Teenage, black metal, card-carrying Satanist me would be very confused by how much middle-aged me agrees with the current pope.
Satanic Temple or Church of Satan?
Church of Satan, unfortunately. It was the mid-90’s. LaVey and the Order of Nine Angles was all you could really find until you were already into it and knew publishers to look for.
Yeah, I should’ve thought before asking. TST didn’t exist when you were a teenager, unless you consider 30 to be middle-aged lol
The last few popes have been relatively progressive, especially compared to most of the Protestant offshoots of the Martin Luther/John Calvin types. I’d recommend checking out the papal enclyclicals. There’s a bunch of them that read borderline Marxist, like Rerum Novarum.
Now that ive said something nice about them, still, the Catholic Church is an organization that does protect its own pedos from punishment, which isn’t unique to the Catholic Church, still fuck the Catholic church for that.
Religion tends to trail civil society about 25 years in terms of ethics and morality.
These days they even realize condoms are less bad than AIDS. And some realize that LGTBQ people are … actual human people.
They all still value faith over reason and have invisible friends in the sky. Not serious adults.
I’d say this one and the last. Red shoe guy was asshole prime.
tbf, teenage me would be pretty puzzled by a sassy pope from Chicago that keeps getting involved in American politics. also by how much middle-aged me agrees with that pope.
a sassy pope from Chicago that keeps getting involved in American politics
Sounds like the premise for a pretty okay two-season ABC sitcom c. 1987. (Edit: Maybe even a Perfect Strangers sequel where Larry accidentally ends up as Pope.) Where do I sign?
Balky: “Don’t be sanctimonus”
Similarly, the United States goes to war against the fundamentalist theocracy in Iran. And who do I find myself kinda sorta rooting for?
Cleric is still an evil class, just lawful evil vs the chaotic evil alignment of US’s govt
This dude was their PR guy until 2018 and is from FOX News. Pope Francis kept him until 2018 and then hired the new guy. That’s a long time to have a Fox News guy in charge of your PR. New pope hasn’t replaced Francis’ picked guy.
Burke was formerly a correspondent for the Fox News and for Time magazine, while based in Rome. In June 2012 it was announced he would be taking up the position of senior communications advisor for the Section for General Affairs of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.[2][3][4]
He was appointed vice director of the Holy See Press Office in December 2015, and was promoted to director August 1, 2016, succeeding Frederico Lombardi.[5]
On December 31, 2018, he announced his intention to resign his appointment at the Holy See, being succeeded by Matteo Bruni.[6][7] In September 2019, he became director of communications at IESE Business School.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Burke_(journalist)
Matteo Bruni (born 23 November 1976) is an Italian-British media professional who serves as director of the Holy See Press Office of the Roman Curia. He was appointed on 18 July 2019 by Pope Francis, succeeding Greg Burke.[1] He is the first non-journalist to hold the office.[2]
