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and i need to say this again:

Pope Francis wasn’t a Nazi or a fascist like Pope Rat and Pope Nazi before him.

but he was un católico latinoamericano y sobre todo, argentino. and he was a man, a patriarchal man, in all his inconsistent and contradictory glory.

so, again, atheists and anti-Papists: today isn’t about you.

just want the semi-lapsed catholics out there know, he was indeed the most progressive pope ever.

let’s hope the next one is even more so.

#PapaQuico#PapaFrancisco#RIP

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PS:

about his handling of the rapists ―becuase they weren’t just pedophiles. many nuns and priests had their Me Too moment: he abolished the one protection that helped the predators avoid the criminal courts:

PONTIFICAL SECRECY

“The Pope abolishes the pontifical secret in cases of sexual abuse”
Vatican News - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-12/pope-abolishes-pontifical-secret-sexual-abuse-clergy.html

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

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this is how bad things were with the Catholic Church before Pope Francis: they didn’t recognize rape of adults by, nor within, the priesthood:

❝ VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.❞

https://apnews.com/article/europe-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-laws-religion-6aa5ce9537419375091fdcf335c74f78

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

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BTW

here’s a page with all of Pope Francis’ bibliography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_bibliography

as to his encyclicals, the most anti-capitalist one is Dilexit Nos:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/20241024-enciclica-dilexit-nos.html

he attacks imperialism in Fratelli Tutti:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html

in Laudato Sí he smacks fascists greenwshing capitalism & eugenics. this is the one he doesn’t even mention abortions but blames them on the engineered poverty of capitalism
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

then there’s Lumen Fidei…

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TBH i have to read it again because, in refreshing my memory, TIL:

❝ It was the first encyclical in the history of the Catholic Church written by two popes, being begun by Pope Benedict XVI and finished by Pope Francis. ❞
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_fidei

Bergoglio was a nerd from the land of that other Jorge, called Borges. i appreciate there seemed to be no symbolism lost on him. rewriting what Pope Rat left unfinished was a boss move for all the anticapitalist & antifa works that came after.