Oh damn, our boy got community noted

the pope is a dictator who has the authority to exercise unlimited power

Literally the entire point of Catholicism, there was like a big schism about it and everything. Should have become Orthodox instead if you're gonna whine about that.

also holy shit this has got to be one of the funniest community notes of all time:

nooo I only joined for the esoteric rites you can't just do the rest of Catholicism!!

Lol no fucking way there was a bishop strickland from texas.

"I sell indulgences and indulgence accessories."

This is what happens when your understanding of history comes from Pepe memes and two and a half hour YouTube videos of guys whose highest level of history was senior year of high school talking about what caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It’s all about inventing a tradition to make American culture and politics the direct inheritor of ye olde tyme European Christendom, but then ignores the few dozen schisms and revolutions that were all about getting out from under that.

I used to be quite churchy, and then when I wasn't and became quite lefty, I honestly felt right at home because both the church and the left splinters into ever expanding subgroups that splinter into even more subgroups at the drop of a hat. It's a weird parallel but it's definitely there

These dorks are still mad that the vatican decided that blaming jewish people for literally everything was a bit much

just stay evangelical if you don't like it

"Bu-but the congregation in Midnight Mass seemed so nice!"

Honestly calling the pope an authoritarian dictator of the Vatican city-state would be a good bit

Your religion is literally that the guy speaks directly with and acts on behalf of the supreme and omnipotent creator of the universe.

"I am a very proud and devout monarchist but it's like, the King's ministers keep doing shit I don't like! Where's the due process?!"

Dude, apparently the most recent trigger for the removal of the bishop was because he was fucking with finances. Can you even fucking imagine an embezzling bishop genuinely thinking he's holier than the Jesuit Pope who wears an iron cross and named himself after Francis of Assisi? The Pope who has the closest claim to a nomination by God as intended by the church in any recent history? Fuck off!

Poster-Christian theology is so godawful that twenty years of exposure to their shit has permanently alienated me from religion. Just, like, in general.

Fundies say the darndest things. In fact, they never shut the fuck up.

As much shit as there is to be said about the Vatican, the title of Pope at least has qualifications and expectations and that makes him a breath of fresh air next to trad types

Bring back calling the Pope "the Bishop of Rome"

prods unknowingly pretending to be catholic will never stop being funny to me

Reminds me of a conversation with my mom I had when I was ~16:

"I think gay people should be allowed to marry"

"The Pope would disagree with you"

"Well the Pope is wrong"

"You cant call yourself catholic if you think the pope is wrong about stuff"

" ok, then I'm not catholic"

Lmao, fucking dolt, the church recognizes the Pope as the living embodiment of God's word and authority on earth.

Redoing the Avignon Papacy but this time just for chads

Without due process?

LMAO

This is what happens when you adopt a religion for aesthetic purposes, lmao. The Pope being the mouthpiece of God is literally one of the core fundamentals of Catholicism. What he says, goes.

"Due process..." What is this, the high middle aged? They are arguing over the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts. They really do want to live in a CK2 savefile when they are trying to replay the Clarendon Constitutions and the whole Investiture Controversy. Gotta keep those tithes in your home county so you can upgrade your ~~swimming pool~~ castle to level 3.

Boy this era's Luther is gonna be hilarious

Wow these people are fucking idiots lol, thats literally what catholicism is all about, spoiler alert if a genuine liberation theology pope was elected, you losers would HAVE to bend to his will and adjusty your beliefs. Fucking aesthetics converts lol, hilarious.

Click for a really fun thread full of cope.

how the fuck did you do that

If it was some random catholic convert on Twitter, it would be pretty funny, but this is the account of an institute dedicated to the protection of the catholic faith, you'd think some of those motherfuckers would have read book on the subject (you know, papal primacy, kind of a big deal to catholics) but I guess not, you can't make that shit up

Cesare Borgias shouldn't have stopped at Bologna

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Add it to the huge list of examples of American Catholics being Protestants with extra gold.

These same people loose their shit if you read them catholic social teaching and that it counts as a mortal sin to be agaisnt preferential treatment for the poor.

"Soviet-era dictators" still had to run everything by the Supreme Soviet, far more to any degree than any Pope. It is ironically only during the Yeltsin era that the term dictator can be much more easily applied to the Russian system, to horrendous results because nothing ever got done other than large sell-offs of public property and stuff only started functioning again once Putin was able to achieve an actual legislative consensus in the legislature (even if it was from a base of oligarchs).

Stalin was notorious for having far too much stuff go past his desk, but to claim that he was a micro manager on the level of like, Tsar Nicholas is not understanding how Soviet politics actually worked. When it worked well, it was because it was a consensus based process with a firm theoretical grounding based in the founding ideology of Marxist-Leninism. Thing went downhill once the intellectual elites not only disputed the consensus (by fully rejecting Stalin's thought and legacy despite it's general popularity among contemporary Russians) but also, in doing so, completely lost theoretical grounding, deviating into disastrous attempts at left-communism, and then swerving back disastrously into attempts at social democracy.