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   Michael wme said, 3 months ago

   He’s going to a convent, not to a business meeting. He should be carrying a habit and wimple, not a business suit.

   
   (It’s been so long, no one seems to know what a retired pope is supposed to wear, but I’m guessing the white yarmulke has to go.)
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   olfart said, 3 months ago

   Perhaps his greatest works will come in retirement, as was the case with some U.S. presidents.
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   I wouldn’t expect anything from that guy.
   The question is will the next pope be liberal or conservative?
   The odds are the next pope will be a conservative Italian as the church always doubles down on its stupidity.
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   Jase99 said, 3 months ago

   @Radish

   “The odds are the next pope will be a conservative Italian as the church always doubles down on its stupidity.”
   
   The orthodox Catholics need to give the pseudo-puritanical American Protestants a run for their money in the race back to the anti-science Dark Ages.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Haven’t had a retiring Pope since 1415. It doesn’t help that the present Pope helped pedophile priests knowingly. Big black mark on his record.
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   Reppr said, 3 months ago

   Just because you are so open minded that your brains are dripping out your ears is no reason that the Church should be the same way.
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   vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago

   good riddance. didn’t do enough about the clergy abuse.
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   Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago

   @Reppr

   “Just because you are so open minded that your brains are dripping out your ears is no reason that the Church should be the same way.”
   
   I think that’s exactly what the Catholic Inquisition said to Galileo when he claimed the Earth revolves around the Sun.
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   vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago

   what do you expect from a guy who was hitler youth? who didn’t do jack against marcial maciel’s abuses. who tells the continent of africa that is ravaged by aids and hiv to not to use contraception.
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    Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

    Ironically, Catholics (who are against abortion) tell their sheeple to vote democrat.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Is that because they know who is truly the “religious party” and the rhetoric party"
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    dannysixpack said, 3 months ago

    shouldn’t he be carrying a brown shirt?
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