Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Pope Francis’s latest plans fuel rumours over resignation | Pope Francis | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Francis to host consistory in August then visit Perdonanza Celestiniana festival, initiated by pope who resigned Quote Rumours swirling since early May that Pope Francis might retire have been fuelled by an announcement that he will be attending a feast initiated by a 13th-century pope who himself resigned. Speculation that the 85-year-old might follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Benedict XVI and step down from his post was prompted in early May when he appeared in public using a wheelchair for the first time, after undergoing a minor operation to treat knee pain. It gained momentum when he made the unusual decision to host a consistory on 27 August to create new cardinals, some of whom will be eligible to elect the pontiff’s successor at the next conclave. The next day, Francis will travel to L’Aquila, the Abruzzo town ravaged by an earthquake in 2009, for the Perdonanza Celestiniana festival, during which he will visit the cathedral that hosts of the tomb of Celestine V, a hermit pope who resigned in 1294 after just five months in the job. Benedict also visited the tomb in 2009, leaving behind his pallium stole in what some commentators at the time said was a symbolic gesture ahead of his own resignation, which came in 2013. “It’s very odd to have a consistory in August, there’s no reason that he needs to call this [event] three months in advance and then go to L’Aquila in the middle of it,” said Robert Mickens, the Rome-based editor of the English-language edition of La Croix, a Catholic daily newspaper. Having three "official" living popes would be quite unprecedented! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Time to institute Highlander rules for retired living popes? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 What color smoke does the Vatican use to signal habemus multos pontifices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 6 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: What color smoke does the Vatican use to signal habemus multos pontifices? Brown? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 If we get an additional Pope before the the other two die, does this me we get the Holy Trinity 2: Divine Boogaloo?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 lol I bet we're going to see a hard swing back to an old school Pope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 Just now, CitizenVectron said: lol I bet we're going to see a hard swing back to an old school Pope It's not exactly like Francis I was a "liberal" by any stretch of the imagination when it came to social issues. He just had a far better PR department than his predecessor. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 It also doesn't hurt that he doesn't look like like his predecessor, pictured here: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 59 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: It's not exactly like Francis I was a "liberal" by any stretch of the imagination when it came to social issues. He just had a far better PR department than his predecessor. Oh absolutely! But I bet they will give up on pretending to be moderate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 fuckers won't appoint a jew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, Jason said: fuckers won't appoint a jew I so need this to happen. There is a not insignificant number of evangelicals that believe a Jewish Pope is a major sign of the end times. This would certainly give them something to chew on other than gay and reproductive rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said: I so need this to happen. There is a not insignificant number of evangelicals that believe a Jewish Pope is a major sign of the end times. This would certainly give them something to chew on other than gay and reproductive rights. Wait seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 8 minutes ago, Jason said: Wait seriously? Those heretics hate the Catholic Church so I can see where that idea comes from. I really need to do an EU4 campaign as the Papel States and pwn the Reformation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jason said: Wait seriously? Abso-fucking-lutely. I grew up around these people. They're the group that took the words of huckster televangelists like Jack Van Impe as gospel. If you care about the weeds, it's the group of evangelicals that believe the Antichrist will be a Pope. Also, because certain readings of the book of Revelations dictates that the Jewish population in Israel believe the antichrist to be the Messiah. Well, how do you compensate for that seeming contradiction? A Jewish Pope, of course. This also means you need to have Jewish state in the land of ancient Israel for there to be a Jewish population there to be tricked by the antichrist. That's why evangelicals care so much about the Jewish state of Israel. Just understand that these people vote and have, for years now, helped shape foreign policy in regards to Israel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Finally, we’ll get a sequel to my favorite Netflix original movie! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Maybe they need 3 living popes to summon the giga pope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Air_Delivery said: Maybe they need 3 living popes to summon the giga pope Wouldn't technically a Giga Pope be Jesus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 34 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said: Maybe they need 3 living popes to summon the giga pope And if we get two more can we call on Pope Exodia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Jason said: Wait seriously? This is all part of the reason that evangelicals support Israel so much. When their ostebsibly all powerful and all knowing and all present god comes to earth, if he enters "the rapture" into his holy iPhone and the GPS cannot find a place called "Israel" then the second coming cannot happen. Or more seriously, what @Ghost_MH said. There are a lot of Christians that don't "know" this but also believe that support for Israel is crucially important. They're just not aware they've been psyop'd as to the actual reason. It helps explain why there are so many simultaneously "pro-Israel / anti-'globalist'" people on the right wing. The goal posts are barely wider than the ball, but by god they're going to kick the absolute shit out of that thing while trying to make the field goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 51 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: Wouldn't technically a Giga Pope be Jesus? I was thinking somthing like this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 34 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: This is all part of the reason that evangelicals support Israel so much. When their ostebsibly all powerful and all knowing and all present god comes to earth, if he enters "the rapture" into his holy iPhone and the GPS cannot find a place called "Israel" then the second coming cannot happen. Or more seriously, what @Ghost_MH said. There are a lot of Christians that don't "know" this but also believe that support for Israel is crucially important. They're just not aware they've been psyop'd as to the actual reason. It helps explain why there are so many simultaneously "pro-Israel / anti-'globalist'" people on the right wing. The goal posts are barely wider than the ball, but by god they're going to kick the absolute shit out of that thing while trying to make the field goal. Oh yeah, many of the day to day evangelicals don't know any of this, but they all attend churches run by pastors who came out of the 80s and 90s reading books like Jack Van Impe's Revelations Revealed or Pat Robertson's New World Order. These books seeded Satanic cabal conspiracies and created a generation of evangelicals far more susceptible to obvious Internet troll bullshit like Q. Either way, the core belief here is a support for Israel as it's needed for end time prophecies, but only so far as the Jewish people need to be the helpful mark that is tricked by the antichrist for having rejected Jesus the first time around. There's a lot of antisemitism built into all this from the very start. It's all wild, but it like for reals explains much of seemingly contradictory stances racist evangelicals seem to hold. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 The bottom-line is that vast swathes of the evangelical movement only values the existence of the Jewish people in so far as they need them to die. They literally love the Jewish people to death. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Zaku3 said: Those heretics hate the Catholic Church so I can see where that idea comes from. I really need to do an EU4 campaign as the Papel States and pwn the Reformation. The real pro gamer move was in Medieval Total War 2: send a high skilled assassin to chill around Rome. Start a war against your fellow Catholics and take a couple of cities. After the pope excommunicates you for waging war against Catholics, assassinate the dick. Boom. New pope, no more excommunication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 28 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: The real pro gamer move was in Medieval Total War 2: send a high skilled assassin to chill around Rome. Start a war against your fellow Catholics and take a couple of cities. After the pope excommunicates you for waging war against Catholics, assassinate the dick. Boom. New pope, no more excommunication. In the biz we call this "getting Boniface VII'd" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Give us that giant turtle from Elden Ring or we riot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 23 hours ago, Zaku3 said: Wouldn't technically a Giga Pope be Jesus? Kaiju Jesuzilla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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