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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Makes sense, the cardinals probably view it as a failure because they desperately tried to stop people from calling it the Popemobile.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Wonder how long until Israel bombs the Popemobile

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

A good usage of the vehicle.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 51 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Say what you will about Pope Francis but he seemed to genuinely care about others.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It's odd, it's almost like that's the way Catholics are supposed to be.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

No wonder the rightwing US archbishops and cardinals hated him.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 16 points 19 hours ago

The very start of his time looked really good. Especially in contrast to Pope Palpatine before. Later, a bit more confused.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Some are

There are also the ones who are far right and don't seem to actually can about helping people. Those are the people who make me sick.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not really not the onion though. The Pope was apparently calling priests in Gaza almost every day. He believed parking the Popemobile in front of hospitals and children's clinics would make for really bad optics if (who am I kidding, when) Israel bombs them.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

The Popemobile was Hamas

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

My first thought is that seeing a popemobile outside a hospital would cause members of the idf some pause, but I've been watching this conflict for almost a century and some 18 year olds would consider it a high score.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He was right though, it would look terrible when Israel bombs them.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yesterday Israel used a bomb for a gender reveal. They don't care if they look bad.

[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -3 points 21 hours ago

I'm not defending Israel or the folk who did that, just saying that some idiot in southern California did that in the last decade too. Started a big fire. I recall we mocked them in public discourse because we had little other way of venting our frustration that a public employee would burn down an appreciable portion of the state to announce what gender they think their child has.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, they made jokes about how it looked like a gender reveal.

Fucking Al Jazeera.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago

Username does not check out

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn't the comeback you think it is.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not a comeback, it's setting the record straight. Repeating false accusations doesn't help anyone.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

They changed the headline on their news story from one to the other.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Sheesh, imagine being that priest, doing daily status updates skipping about 23 levels of chain of command.

This Pope had a personal charity underling who would walk the streets of Rome and hand out cash to people who needed it. The money came from selling autographed indulgences. So I'm not surprised in the least.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

There are other articles here that don't really read as satire ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Pope wanting the Catholic Church to touch children one last time.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That'd more likely be Ratzinger's thing.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeah, Francis might have done nothing about the problem but he didn't seem to support it like the previous pope Joseph Ratzinger who was pope from 2005 to 2013 when he renounced the papacy, the first pope to do so of their own initiative in over seven hundred years.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

I wish I can gold this

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 day ago

Well at least it is bullet proof....not sure about missile strike proof though.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That cars about to be bombed. I hope they have a spare.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I heard at one point that they have at least one on every continent except Antarctica.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Discriminating against penguins again?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Penguins are definitely protestants.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

That would make a lot of sense.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is that an el camino? WTF is that.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago
[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are usually Mercedes vehicles

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Doesn't Italy have a ton of car manufacturers? It keeps getting stranger.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The Vatican is not part of Italy.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

If you want to think that, that's fine. Yes, they're their own nation, but they're linked.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but most of them suck and I don't see the Pope using a Ferrari

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, that's also not great optics...

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

You didn't know what the popemobile is? Wha

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just as soon as that dude power washes the Pope stank out. Then they can load it up with fresh, young, traumatized boys.

[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We all know that things seen many young traumatized boys.