Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated following the death of Pope Francis on Monday. "Today there were major shifts in global leaderships," Greene wrote on X just hours after the pontiff died. "Evil is being defeated by the hand of God." Greene's remarks came after Rep. Nancy Mace's (R...
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Do you seriously think they’re not?

    Do you really think the cia/nsa doesn’t have compromat? Or that Putin doesn’t?

    Or that rich fucks like musk can’t buy a priest?

    Are you really so confident the organization that made a deliberate effort to protect men who sexually assaulted children is going to do the right thing because it’s the right thing?l

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      42·
      14 hours ago

      Just to be clear, I’m not defending the Catholic Church here. At all. Just calling out USians who think the world revolves around their country.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        14 hours ago

        revolves around? no. I don’t think that at all.

        but I do know that roughly 28% of annual contributions come from the US, that the US is fourth on the list of ‘most Catholics’ by total numbers and the vatican would be pretty stupid to ignore those two points. and that is not even coming close to the question of corruption or doctrine.

        Are they going to completely capitulate? probably not, but that doesn’t mean there’s no influence, either. Further, the vatican still opposes trans lifestyles doctrinaly, and Francis was the first pope to emphasize pastoral care over doctrine. It would not be difficult to imagine that conservative voices push back against that shift.

        Thus I’m concerned that the next guy won’t be as supportive of trans as Francis was. Remember, Francis ruffled more than a few feathers with his progressiveness, not just american bishops (who are straight up assholes.)