Pope Francis is dead...only days after snubbing JD Vance who tried to meet with him.

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Drach

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Enjoy Felix. I'm glad I triggered you.😀
What are you going to do when the next pope is black?
 
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cytg111

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If the timeline wants a natural continuation of it's current orientation the next pope will be Kanye West.
 
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FelixDeCat

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Whoever the next Pope is, it is going to be a big job. Can you imagine being 70+ and taking on the world? Im in my 50s and pretty sure I could not do it, being a leader of billions of souls...way too stressful.

You had one Pope in modern times that did not even live one month in office:

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Poor Pope Stephen, barely lived through the weekend!
 

Indus

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Whoever the next Pope is, it is going to be a big job. Can you imagine being 70+ and taking on the world? Im in my 50s and pretty sure I could not do it, being a leader of billions of souls...way too stressful.

You had one Pope in modern times that did not even live one month in office:

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Poor Pope Stephen, barely lived through the weekend!

They made a movie about it..

I hear it's called the Godfather Part 3!
 

MrSquished

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Whoever the next Pope is, it is going to be a big job. Can you imagine being 70+ and taking on the world? Im in my 50s and pretty sure I could not do it, being a leader of billions of souls...way too stressful.

You had one Pope in modern times that did not even live one month in office:

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Poor Pope Stephen, barely lived through the weekend!
You're in your fifties and can't even be a halfway decent human being. First try not being human trash.
 

WelshBloke

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He did seem fairly decent for a Pope.
I do feel like im living in bizzaro world when people call him humble and a champion of the poor though.
The catholic church is worth something like $4trillion and a lot of that money comes from poor people donating. Poor people donating to an organisation thats worth $4trillion! I'd argue that the catholic church is a net drain on poor people!

Also this is his office chair! Humble my arse!

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BoomerD

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He did seem fairly decent for a Pope.
I do feel like im living in bizzaro world when people call him humble and a champion of the poor though.
The catholic church is worth something like $4trillion and a lot of that money comes from poor people donating. Poor people donating to an organisation thats worth $4trillion! I'd argue that the catholic church is a net drain on poor people!

Also this is his office chair! Humble my arse!

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BIG religion (especially the big christian sects) is all about the pomp and showmanship....spend more on show...less on go.
 

pmv

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They made a movie about it..

I hear it's called the Godfather Part 3!

Outside of fiction, there was a well-known book written about it. I gather the conclusion was that, contrary to the conspiracy theories, he wasn't murdered...but he did kind of die of neglect, because everyone in the Vatican was too busy politicking to notice how desperately ill he was.

I remember that time I was a child going on a trip to stay with family - on the way out the newspapers had front pages about the Pope having died...came back a month later and the newspapers all had front pages about the Pope having died. I recall being very confused by that.

Popes, American Presidents - they all seem to be close to death by the time they get the job.

[edit] It used to be like that with Soviet leaders, but unfortunately it has been different recently.
 
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FelixDeCat

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You can't trust Big God! Should stick to worshiping small local independent Gods.
I always have trusted God but I have not always been faithful to the Commanments.

Then there is prophecy. When Jesus said one day the Jewish great temple would fall no one believed. But it did. And it was because the Jews tried to stage an uprising against the mighty Roman Empire. The temple was destroyed decades after the prophecy.