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Religion: Communion Toast Crunch

I'm choosing to believe that the choice of a "progressive" American to be the new Pope was a deliberate big ol' middle finger to all the fascist magats out there. They are losing their minds over this and its delicious.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I have more in common with the new Pope than my next door neighbor. He's Catholic, I am not.
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I am a lapsed and renounced RCC apostate and I have more respect for the job and the last two men who accepted it than I ever have before, despite my frustrations with the glacial pace of social progress in the Church.
 
FUCK YES RIGHT INTO MY VEINS!!

Of course, he identifies as white, but his family history shockingly ties him directly to Black and Creole communities in Louisiana.

A genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection, Jari C. Honora, made the discovery the same day Leo XIV was named pope. And the pope’s older brother, John Prevost, who still lives in Chicago, confirmed the bombshell findings to the New York Times shortly afterwards.

“This discovery is just an additional reminder of how interwoven we are as Americans,” Honora said late Thursday. “I hope that it will highlight the long history of Black Catholics, both free and enslaved, in this country, which includes the Holy Father’s family.”

According to his findings, the pope’s maternal side can be traced back to the 1840s’ “free people of color” in New Orleans— a city with a significant Catholic population— Honora told Forbes. Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents and his mother’s older siblings, were “identified in records as Black or mulatto” in historic documents, although they “passed … into a white racial identity” after moving to Chicago.

That’s where Leo’s mother, Mildred Martinez, was born in 1912, according to her birth certificate obtained by the New York Times. But before the family migrated north, the pope’s grandparents lived in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an historically Black neighborhood which has a 74 percent Black population, according to bestneighborhood.org.
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Proud2baLaker said:
I saw earlier today he had Creole ancestry and was telling a friend that I absolutely LOVE that fact (mostly because I am a huge fan of Cajun and Creole food which in my opinion is the greatest food in America)
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I went to a "Creole" restaurant in Manassas today run entirely by Chinese. Their Cajun sauce was Thousand Island Dressing. I am not making any of that up.
 
Due to Pius XII walking the tightrope with the Axis Powers and JPII's life in Communist Poland*, the Church still considers atheism and secular governments which encourage or mandate it to be its greatest threats. I wouldn't expect that to change in the coming era as officially atheist China attempts to take the world's reins. The Vatican likely views Trump and Xi as they viewed Hitler, Stalin, and Brezhnev - secular threats to greater ecumenism, global peace, and the right of human beings to practice any religious faith at all (because they would just as soon replace "God" with themselves). They know Trump is a non-believer who doesn't really give a crap about Christianity insofar as it serves his own interests. Anyone who cannot see that is a flipping moron.

This is one of the reasons why, since JPII, the church has focused on increasing outreach to Protestants, Jews, and Muslims. Without any God, there is simply no reason for these institutions and (most importantly!) the immense artefactual, artistic, and monetary wealth they have collectively amassed to exist.

I definitely could do without the persecution complex, however. We have a very, very long way to go before I'll start to feel sympathetic towards claims of Christian persecution, at least in the western world.

Mind you, as an atheist myself, I'd love to burn all religion down. But to replace it with what? Because sadly, that would create an enormous moral vacuum for many folks.

*Really, we could take this back to Italian unification and the loss of the Papal States
 
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