Pope Leo and Friends

[zorkan]

Welcome to the new pope Leo.
I am assuming...

That he believes in the recent creation.
Evolution is directed by god.
A man was virgin born.
The same man rose from the dead.
Bread and wine is turned into his body and blood at the mass.

Will he continue to spout god's love?
While according to the Catechism, "homosexual acts" (i.e., sexual acts between persons of the same sex) are "acts of grave depravity" that are "intrinsically disordered."
They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life.

Will he get a handle on the actions of paedo priests?

[Recusant]

JD Vance, that eminent theologian, has already advised Pope Leo to be careful about his opinions. It's inspiring when a smarmy self-regarding jackass makes ridiculous noises.

"I don't see Pope Leo as an anti-capitalist. I do think some of the things that have come out of the Vatican on the immigration issue, in particular, have been troubling," Vance said. "What I would hope the Catholic leadership has learned from some of the things that me and Marco [Rubio] and the president have said about immigration is, it's not just about the dignity of the immigrant, it's about the dignity of the native born."

[source]

[zorkan]

Leo the lion is beginning to roar.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjxz24d587o

[billy rubin]

vance has no fixed opinions of his own. currently hes a lapdog of donald trump, so he will parrot and amplify whatever trump needs him to say.

if he were to somehow need to join the vatican, he would do a 180 on everything hes saying now.

to be a politician in america these days requires somewhat more of a craven opportunism than it has in the last few decades, and vance is the current flagbearer.

[zorkan]

Who isn't a Trump lapdog?

Here in the UK.
Starmer is one, soon to be Burnham.
Badenoch would be.
Farage already is.

[billy rubin]

in america our token p
opposition is actually part of the coterie they claim to oppose.

our democratic party isno longer left-  what"liberal" now means is what we used to call "conservative," while "conservative" now means "fascst," or worse.

we have had significant political upsets as constiuents vote out their "liberal" democratic party repesentatives in favourof social democrats. the reaction of the democratic party has been to oppose this, rathr than to observe the coming sea change and listen to their people.

[zorkan]

There was a time when people who did not go to church were suspected of being in league with the devil.
There were churches close to each other to allow the elite classes to be kept separate from the lower classes.
Churchgoing was so popular once but go into any town centre in England today you may see more churches than churchgoers.

Times change and Scotland leads the way.
From 2021:
"The five local authorities with the largest proportion of those who identified as holding no religious beliefs were all located in Scotland: Shetland Islands (62.75%), Fife (60.55%), Midlothian (60.54%), Aberdeenshire (58.96%) and Clackmannanshire (58.33%).
In Wales, the highest proportion was in Caerphilly at 56.70%.
In England, the highest proportion was in Brighton and Hove at 55.20%.
In Northern Ireland, the highest concentration was in Ards and North Down at 30.63%".

[zorkan]

Send this to Leo, latest post from Janna Levin.

We have spent centuries demystifying the heavens, deposing the deities, replacing omens with calculations. The gods were myths we invited to inhabit the sky. They were evicted by Kepler's laws and Newton's calculus. In their abandoned territory, we're intending to install a geocentric swarm of space data centers with massive compute, a pantheon of machine intelligences, actual reigning overlords. As though we couldn't tolerate the spiritual void. Depose the gods; all hail the machines.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DafmZ7PDhNn/