• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    The Catholic church is awful. ALL organized religion is inherently awful. That said, I am never going to shit on anyone trying to steer a giant machine of suck in a less shitty direction. Will he fix it? Hell no, but I genuinely wish he can manage to squeeze some good out of that abomination.

    Best of luck to you based pope. I hope you manage some good.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I was a Catholic, and the church is big on social justice. I used to listen a lot of sermons about government corruption and social inequality that goes on for nearly two hours.

      Is the Catholic church the biggest pedophile ring on the planet? Yes. But hats off to a broken clock that point towards the good direction, but only does so twice a day.

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        2 hours ago

        With Epstein’s iceberg exposed, I’m not even sure they are the biggest.

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          I’ll upvote you for the sentiment, but any brief consideration of the scope of the church worldwide yields a significantly broader and more accessible footprint than the top tier of wealth hoarders. The valuation of the church versus those individuals is probably equal, though.

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      4 hours ago

      If only he showed half as much enthusiasm about purging the pedophiles he’s currently hiding, I might think better of him.