RIP Pope Francis
He was a remarkable man:
The Popes Easter message yesterday:
"I think of the people of Gaza and its Christian community in particular, where the terrible conflict continues to cause death and destruction and create a dramatic and deplorable humanitarian situation"
BREAKING: Pope Francis has passed away at the age of 88.
Just one day before his death, he called for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza, describing the situation as “dramatic & deplorable,” & urged the world to deliver aid & peace to the Palestinian people.
Pope Francis has just passed away.
He was the only global leader to condemn both NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine as well as the genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel with Western backing. (Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ‘Barking at Putin’s Door’)
May he rest in peace.
Posted by b on April 21, 2025 at 8:59 UTC | Permalink
next page »https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-826948
Pope Francis meets wounded Israeli soldier, Sheba Medical Center leaders at Vatican
n a meeting at the Vatican in Rome, Alon Kaminer, a wounded Israeli soldier currently recovering at Sheba, along with Sheba Medical Center’s Director General Prof, Yitshak Kreiss, Yoel Har-Even, Director of Sheba Global, had a private audience with Pope Francis on Wednesday morning.
The encounter was arranged following a recent visit by a Vatican official to Sheba, during which he met with civilians and soldiers injured in the ongoing conflict, including Kaminer.
Pope Francis extended his blessings to Kaminer during their meeting in Rome, expressing solidarity and compassion.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 9:15 utc | 3
May the Souls of the Faithful Departed through the Mercy of God Rest in Peace.
Unlike many fellow Catholics, I came to admire Francis' tenacity for declaring God's mercy and love for His children.
This was what Francis held aloft as the theme of his Pontificate.
How can one argue against this?
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@ Paul from Norway
Is this to smear a dead man's reputation by associating him with Israel?
My man, the Pope takes audience with everyone.
"To be in the world, not of it."
Pope Francis was an outspoken critic of the Palestinian genocide.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 21 2025 9:26 utc | 4
Sorry to hear of the death of this chap who was somewhat compromised else he wouldn't have got that gig but he did do what he could over the foul genocide even if it was the same as we all do which is make it known how we feel, he did have a much bigger audience than any of us.
Totally unsurprised to see a zionist troll try & use his death to attempt to excuse their vile behaviour, typical fucking zionist garbage which is an apt illustration of how far and how low those murdering criminals go to in their vain attempts to tell the world black is white. What scum!
Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 21 2025 9:26 utc | 5
Some links to remember who we are dealing with:
The Vatican Financial Empire- A Hidden History | 2025 Documentary 50 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwt-pIxekMQ
Novelists CS Lewis and Marcel Proust as well as poets TS Eliot and Paul Celan were quoted by the head of the Catholic church in a letter written on 17 July and published in eight languages on Sunday.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/05/pope-francis-says-future-priests-should-read-poetry-and-fiction
https://www.rt.com/russia/576234-zelensky-rejects-pope-mediator/
https://www.mambaonline.com/2020/09/18/pope-tells-parents-god-loves-their-lgbtq-children/
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 9:30 utc | 6
Look how the overtly politicized Vatican bureaucrats and the pathetic media spinmeister cucks reacted in August 2022 to words by Francis that were deemed insufficiently one-sided and vilifying against Russia:
ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday moved to defend Pope Francis from allegations he hasn’t come down hard enough on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly views the war launched by Moscow as “senseless, repugnant and sacrilegious.”Last week, Ukraine summoned the top papal diplomat to complain about recent comments by Francis. At an audience a day earlier at the Vatican, Francis had referred to a national Russian TV commentator who was killed by a car bomb in Moscow as a “poor girl.”
“The words of the Holy Father on this dramatic question should be read as a voice raised in defense of human life and of the values linked to that, and not taken as a political position,” the Vatican said. “As for as the war of wide dimensions in Ukraine, begun by the Russian Federation, the interventions of the Holy Father Francis are clear and unequivocal in condemning it as morally unjust, unacceptable, barbaric, senseless, repugnant and sacrilegious.”
Posted by: Spectator | Apr 21 2025 9:30 utc | 7
Fascinating to see the Anti-Christians dogpiling on their blind hate. Illuminating.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 21 2025 9:50 utc | 8
He tried to reconcile the irreconcilable, by taking the sanctity of human life as his base.
Rest in peace.
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He at least tried till the end, which is the least anyone of us can do as well.
Died only a day (or two?) after meeting JD Vance. Hmmmmmmm....
Posted by: Conquista | Apr 21 2025 9:53 utc | 10
@ Posted by: sam | Apr 21 2025 10:08 utc | 11
They aren't obvious to me. Other than, Who will be the next Pope?
Posted by: Clever Dog | Apr 21 2025 10:11 utc | 12
They aren't obvious to me. Other than, Who will be the next Pope?
Posted by: Clever Dog | Apr 21 2025 10:11 utc | 12
Another Jew. Why not a black woman? Oprah Winfred maybe?
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 10:36 utc | 13
The political leanings of the chosen cardinal will be interesting, as will the political leanings of the whole conclave.
Posted by: Kaiama | Apr 21 2025 10:46 utc | 14
Tim Minchin singing the Pope Song with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB958pxquj0
§| Too soon? .
Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 21 2025 10:58 utc | 15
I liked the pope before better. My mother too.
Not into these leftist Maryknoller types. Give me Don Camillo.
Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 21 2025 11:06 utc | 16
Pope Francis was the only leader in the Western World to condemn the despicable zionist genocide of the innocent and righteous Palestinian people. I honor him.
It's hilarious to me that the "arch-conservative" (christian-zionist heretics) of America hated Pope Francis. Why the hate Vance and Trump? Pope Francis didn't bootlick Satanyahoo hard enough for you? Bloo bloo bloo, don't worry, Sheldon Adelson's wife will give you both your christian-zionist dog treats.
Posted by: Argh | Apr 21 2025 11:25 utc | 17
While we pray for his immortal soul, it can be stated that he was probably the worst inhabitant of the See of Peter. He hated the Church and was the Destroyer as per Saint Francis of Assisi, even the False Prophet of Revelations. A freemason, which should have negated him from holding the office, and could still be used as a cause to make his papacy null and void.
We can honestly say that he was an antipope until Benedict died, as Benedict deliberately failed to renounce the papacy according to Canon Law 332§2. We have lived through one of the most debilitating and extraordinary periods of Church history, and it aint over yet. We pray for a good and holy pope as Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador, exhorted us to do back in the early 17th century.
Eternal rest grant unto him oh Lord, and may the souls of the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace
Posted by: Paul Dale | Apr 21 2025 11:35 utc | 18
I liked the pope before better. My mother too.
Not into these leftist Maryknoller types. Give me Don Camillo.
Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 21 2025 11:06 utc | 16
Papa Ratzi's brother was definitely involved in organisational child molestations.
Ratzinger's involvment in that scope avoided too much scrutiny.
Him stepping back I found to be telling though.
In his activities he was one step further back than his predecessor ( who was "coached/aided" by him.
Ratzinger's demise was a case of "good riddance".
Pope Francis death is loss and needs a successor in style.
Posted by: MAKK | Apr 21 2025 11:37 utc | 19
Is this to smear a dead man's reputation by associating him with Israel?
My man, the Pope takes audience with everyone.
"To be in the world, not of it."
Pope Francis was an outspoken critic of the Palestinian genocide.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 21 2025 9:26 utc | 4
If it‘s the truth it is the truth. Then it has nothing to do with „to smear“.
Posted by: NoName | Apr 21 2025 11:39 utc | 20
Sorry, while he may have had some good points, in general I despise this Pope as a corrupt hypocrite.
Pope Francis demanded that Western nations accept unlimited third world refugees, so that the western oligarchs could get even richer at the expense of making the western working class poorer and poorer. No, this had zero to do with morality: when the rich enact policies to make themselves even richer at the expense of making everyone else even poorer, any claims of 'human rights' must be rejected with outrage.
And at the same time, immigration to the Vatican state was tightly controlled. No unwashed third-world refugees were allowed to enter that privileged place - I mean, that would have disturbed the peace and culture and luxuries of the holy Pope, and that would surely be a sin. Unlimited mass migration for thee, but not for me.
And of course, in deflecting attention from the inevitable consequences of people breeding like rodents (i.e., having the physical maximum number of children as soon as you become fertile, regardless of circumstance), he and his ilk have condemned much of the world to crushing subsistence poverty, as there is no free choice without knowledge of the consequences.
Posted by: TG | Apr 21 2025 11:40 utc | 21
Even the followers of Schopenhauer recognise that this man tried his best.
Requiescat in pace Francis.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 21 2025 11:43 utc | 22
Anyone who thinks the next Pope will be anyone other than an acolyte of Francis is a fool, the vast majority of standing Cardinals were appointed by him. Indeed, the next Pope will in all likelihood be even more of a global populist. The papacy is now, and forever, an institute of the Global South - good riddance to the genocidal "christian-zionists" (heretics) of the Western World.
Posted by: Argh | Apr 21 2025 11:46 utc | 23
I suppose whatever secrets Jorge Mario Bergoglio is harbouring about his time as Archbishop of Buenos Aires during the military government of Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina in the late 1970s, what he was supposed to have done or not done, and what he actually did or did not do, to stop the arrests and the disappearances of thousands of people, including priests in the Roman Catholic Church, by the Videla government will be accompanying him when he meets his maker, and might well dictate what will happen to him afterwards, among other things of course.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 21 2025 11:59 utc | 24
"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool".
Mark Twain
Posted by: Linda | Apr 21 2025 12:06 utc | 25
What did Francis say about the Genocide?
[2024]
“I am thinking above all of those who leave Gaza in the midst of the famine that has struck their Palestinian brothers and sisters given the difficulty of getting food and aid into their territory,” the pontiff wrote.He went further, raising the alarm on the potential severity of the situation: “According to some experts,” Pope Francis noted, “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide. It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”
That is as strongly worded as he got on The Genocide.
Seems like weak soup to me, especially coming from a person with a voice that reaches billions of people.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 21 2025 12:10 utc | 26
Actually, rather than Twain, this is more to the point:
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Edward Gibbon
Posted by: Linda | Apr 21 2025 12:19 utc | 27
Next pope please should be a conservative one. Because of diversity. I am not amongst those ones who just want the Vatican to be another outpost of a rainbow bannered Green Party. It wouldn't make sense.
Posted by: Tapio | Apr 21 2025 12:22 utc | 28
@ Posted by: Otto Penn | Apr 21 2025 12:10 utc | 26
What the Pope said is far beyond what any national leader has said, outside of Pakistan. None of the others has even been willing to use the word 'genocide'.
And I sure as heck haven't heard it from any leader of the Judaic faith. Some followers, yes, but no leaders.
Posted by: Duane M | Apr 21 2025 12:28 utc | 29
What did he indeed say about the attacks on the Orthodox Church by the usrsurper demonic ukropians? The Nazis in their midst - some of whose whores turned up begging that HE should save them from azovstal.
Anyway let’s leave the mourners to mourn.
There’s many devout Catholics who will be touched - his death just announced this morning. Not unexpectedly, he has been ill. It was on the cards. Heck there was even the new Hollywood film as the precursor messaging to the masses…
I know many who will be praying now.
I’ll come back to the subject as we go into the pantomime of choosing the Next One.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 21 2025 12:30 utc | 30
Controversial in life and now in death. The Vatican is responsible for a vast number of sins, but this Pope not so many.
An eulogy by a critic who obviously did not agree with the openly political agenda of Francis:
https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/pope-francis-and-the-woke-church-of-collapse
Francis was more of a progressive globalist spokesperson than a catholic leader. Even if I would agree with his political views I would still resent the fact that he destroyed the last vestiges of mystery and sprituality.
If you want to be a political activist then do so, but as a religious leader you should strengthen religious beliefs and customs. To bolster community and identity it is neccessary to lay out what constitutes this community. If you wash away all rules and borders, if there is neither a clear understanding of what it means to be part of this group and who is outside, then identity dissolves and with it the spiritual foundation.
Francis was to the church what the current EU leaders are to Europe: gravediggers.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 21 2025 12:49 utc | 32
Judge Nap to Alastair just now: "I hope the *next* Pope is Catholic."
RIP Pope Francis.
It is heartening to know that of his final public sentiments the suffering of people in Gaza was uppermost.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Apr 21 2025 12:55 utc | 33
To simply state that the human beings of gaza musy be protected it is very little thing to do for the Head of the Catholic Church and The Vatican....that is just what any common human being can do...
He, as head of The Vatican State, could have broken relations with Israel, to set an example....or presure his friend Lynn of Rothschild....
He was a ful supporter of that invention of the WEF, so called "incluusive capitalism", which, through the past 5 years so far, we have learnt that consists on "including" our meager incomes into the richest of the world´s rate of proft and that this was done through "the pandemic" and "War of Ukraine"...
Not for nothing his "papacy" started in 2013...just before The Maidan coup which was the prelude of the worst decade for Europe since WWII....in fact the planned plundering of Europe....
He knew nothing of what was in the waiting for Europe...sure....in spite of having at his disposition one of the best intelligence services of the world...yet he warned us of nothing...
I hope that Saint Peter is reading him the list...preventing him into Heaven...
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 12:57 utc | 34
As popes go, Francis was indeed one of the wisest, most righteous and compassionate of them all.
That being said, it's like being the best looking patient in the burns ward.
BTW, why didn't he excommunicate biden for complicity in murder and genocide?
Posted by: motorslug | Apr 21 2025 13:05 utc | 35
I kudos him for speaking out against the war in Ukraine but overall NOT A FAN OF HIS. He was the world's biggest hypocrite criticizing president's like Millie and Trump for securing their borders, WHEN HE LIVED IN A WALLED PALACE WITH TOP SECURITY. Criticized Christians for not getting the covid shot etc etc.
Posted by: Fortuna | Apr 21 2025 13:06 utc | 36
I still recall when he ordered to "vaccinate" all the beggars in Vatican City...which were also human beings deserving protection and human rights...
Repenting and having a word for those being genocided in Gaza at the door of death is very very little doing for a Pope....he should have gone into the windows of The Vatican every morning shouting "This is the worst of sins and I am not going to take it any more"....due the current state of the world...
Still, I do not know wehther he had also some final words in favor of the genocided in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen...and all those legions being sent into poverty and misery, in the very Europe, in spite of having a job, thanks to his "partners" in the WEF, up North and the other side of the Atlantic...
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 13:08 utc | 37
The pope chose his name Francis in reference to Francis of Assisi who was extreme in his humility and his embrace of every creature, the more wretched the better. He endorsed poverty and simplicity. Francis of Assisi was a great man and had a powerful message. His movement became successful and forced the church into some very needed reforms.
Pope Francis clearly hoped to achieve the same. His intentions were noble. But his acts of humility did not send the message he hoped they would, but rather were perceived through a political lense. He took a side in a cultural battle.
When Willy Brandt fell to his knees in Warsaw, it resonated powerfully in all of Europe. The image burned itself into the minds of millions of europeans. The impact of this one act echoed for decades. When Francis washed feet of migrants, the humble act felt less personal and more political than that of the politician Brandt.
Maybe there is no saving the church anyway, but despite his best intentions and certainly being a devout christian, he was pope at the wrong time and did not achieve his goals.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 21 2025 13:20 utc | 38
Hmm.
Maybe I'm getting all of this wrong but depending on how one counts (was this pair real or truly valid popes or not) this means that beyond any doubt either this was the supposed last pope or the next one will be the supposedly last one. "The last one" being "the really bad one" or "the final straw" and one of the omens.
Either that or the notion must truly have been debunked or avoided (and that would be nice). One can't add any more twists or exceptions and still retain validity or connection; it is too far removed :)
I, of course, really want it —the omen— to be debunked or avoided, either will be just fine. Then one looks at the world...
Still too early to tell, keep trying. Letting this "popey buziness" (heh) sink in I detect a slight accent of nervousness in myself.
I have very limited knowledge but consider all popes as at the very least deeply flawed but at the same time none of the last three look like they were exceptionally bad. They still may or may not be/have been extremely bad only that sadly being so is not or would not be an exception...
Maybe I should mention that I don't hold any other religious leaders in any particularly high regard either; there's no shortage of rot ...or should I be coy and say putrefaction?
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An Easter puzzle!
No I don't think anyone will get the "putrefaction" reference so I'm turning it into a puzzle.
The most common answer naming the reference in English is two words and eight letters, nine if you include the space. I am referring to the "proto-chemists" but the link elsewhere will be obvious (and perhaps instructive). Turning each initial letter of the two words into an abbreviation creates a very common English (or rather US) expression and one that many would apply to this post! In turn that expression also consists of two words with a total of eight letters :D
Funny :)
And good for you if you do get the reference or figure it out. Did the clues help?
Too easy?
It is not important :)
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Apr 21 2025 13:21 utc | 39
Posted by: Fortuna | Apr 21 2025 13:06 utc | 36
>>>
Javier Gerardo Milei (JGM) betrayed the people of Argentine, his innate beliefs and primary religion.
Having said that it's totally understandable.
He had a rough upbringing like potato face JDV.
Compassion is a virtue not a defect.
Posted by: pepe | Apr 21 2025 13:22 utc | 40
Francis could have sent the Swiss Army of the powerful Savoys which protected him to defend the lives of the children, women and elders of Gaza and Cisjordania, of Lebanon and Syria, and the Christians being harassed in The Holy Land by the IOA....
Yet, he limited himself to talk....
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 13:32 utc | 41
Pope Francis kept Cardinal Bernard Law at the Vatican while he was wanted for questioning in Boston about why he moved pedophile priests around from parish to parish, rather than turning them over to authorities. Francis ran interference for pedophile priests. Good riddance to bad trash.
Posted by: Caveman | Apr 21 2025 13:33 utc | 42
Looking back, my life has been not all that great. But I didn’t have to be the Pope, so at least there’s that. RIP Pope Francis.
Posted by: blues | Apr 21 2025 13:37 utc | 43
As a firmly standing ATHEIST, I commend b, for praising this person of good will (though very much imperfect and gravely hampered by the obvious political burden of his institution) against the usual fascistic legion of petty, sectarian commentators who de facto rule this website.
A cohort of people, by the way, who like to consider themselves "traditionalists", in the most acritical and obtuse way, even if their little fictional churches and denominations are often a purely modern, reactionary invention.
R.I.P. J.M.Bergoglio
Posted by: MoaMetal | Apr 21 2025 13:37 utc | 44
Postado por: Fantasma de Mozgovoy | 21 de abril de 2025 13:32 UTC | 41....Puro delírio. Seria o equivalente a exigir um milagre. Diria que foi o menos ruim de todos. É muito difícil lutar contra um sistema tão antigo, corrupto, complicado etc (dêem o nome que achar melhor).
Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 13:40 utc | 45
Postado por: Fantasma de Mozgovoy | 21 de abril de 2025 13:32 UTC | 41....Puro delírio. Seria o equivalente a exigir um milagre. Diria que foi o menos ruim de todos. É muito difícil lutar contra um sistema tão antigo, corrupto, complicado etc (dêem o nome que achar melhor).
Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 13:40 utc | 46
Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 13:32 utc | 41
"Francis could have sent the Swiss Army of the powerful Savoys which protected him to defend the lives of the children, women and elders of Gaza and Cisjordania, of Lebanon and Syria, and the Christians being harassed in The Holy Land by the IOA...."
The shiny breastplates and pikes would have been somewhat too visible for today's snipers. Anyway, they usually came from Fribourg in Switzerland, as the ancient mercenaries who formed the original guard were fed on milk, cheese and beef, and were effectively taller and stronger than their contemporaries in the middle ages.
That Francis’s pontificate was a disaster has been long obvious to believing Catholics. His legacy includes a thick cloud of moral confusion regarding sexuality and the family, undermining the bedrock of natural social structure. His focus on the environment was utterly outside of his brief and the competence of his office. His statements on immigration improperly employed the language of the love of our fellow men to imprudently advocate for mass movements of peoples, the effects of which destroy the desirable aspects of the receiving cultures. His promotion of the Rothschild economic scheme and of the Covid lockdowns suggest that all of his social statements were made as a tool of the godless transhumanist elites.
Yet, to believing Catholics, his worst offences were his violation of the sanctity of St. Peter’s Basilica by his veneration of the Pachamama idol and his signing of the Abu Dhabi Accord that not only reduced the Catholic Faith to one among many religions that are pleasing to God, but violated an essential aspect of human nature and a basis of the human intellectual process, i.e. that two things in contradiction such as two different religions cannot both be true at the same time.
May Almighty God have mercy on his soul.
Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 21 2025 13:52 utc | 50
I'm sorry, but for a man who was expected to be the "Vicar of God on Earth" he was mediocre in his compassion.
All he gave was lukewarm, formulaic condolences and admonishements.
Standard template utterances just the bare minimum required to not alert the sheep that there was nothing God-like about this man.
Farewell, another religious bureaucrat and control-functionary!
Christ, whom you claim to represent, would have nailed himself to the cross in the name of Palestine.
But you barely lifted a perfumed finger.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 21 2025 13:52 utc | 51
I remember reading, a year or so ago, in a substack comments side-thread, a debate among several women who aeemed devout Catholics. Their topic was which particular Pope was Satan & completely corrupted their church. Some named Francis, some Ratz, some went further back.
My take, looking from the outside, is right from the start. Read the words of Jesus. The priests twist them, distort & even reverse the meaning, all to elevate themselves.
"And call no one on earth father, for one is your father in Heaven."
Posted by: Mary | Apr 21 2025 13:56 utc | 52
To me, the pope is what remains of the Roman emperor. Rome had a state religion, and the emperor was both head of state and religious leader. Through the quirks of history, the successor of the Roman emperor nowadays has a small country, but large religious power. I see Reformation more as politics than religion.
That said, as religous leaders they sometimes have interesting insights. I really liked it when pope John Paul II said hell exists, and is a state of mind.
Posted by: Passerby | Apr 21 2025 14:07 utc | 53
@Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 13:40 utc | 46
Por qué va a ser puro delirio? Por qué sólo podría ocurrir si tuviera lugar un milagro?
No ha ocurrido en el pasado, pero por razones espurias de rapiña y conquista?
La cuestión es que la "impotencia" proyectada por los poderosos de la Tierra, léase, El Papa de Roma, Rusia, China....no es más que la manera de infligir en la psique de las masas la derrota y consideren cualquier atisbo de resistencia al "nuevo orden de rapiña y genocidio mundial" inútil....
Esto, en el único lugar en el mundo que lo han entendido, y por ello se defiende, es en Yemen....que es o ellos luchan por sus vidas y su dignidad, o no lo hará nadie....
Para qué necesitamos un Papa en medio de este orden salvaje e inmoral de las cosas?
Para que nombre los lugares comunes?
Se supone que debe ser un guía del espíritu...hacia la luz...qué espíritu queda en medio de la esclavitud extendida ahora a todos los hombres de la Tierra, incluídos los europeos?
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 14:08 utc | 54
Rest in peace, Pope Francis.
Two films come to mind, both excellent;
the first one called "Two Popes" about the remarkable abdication of the previous Pope Benedict (Cardinal Ratzinger) the German cardinal who handed over to the Argentinian Francis. The film starring Jonathan Pryce as Francis and Anthony Hopkins as Ratzinger/Benedict is well worth watching, two actors in great form.
The other more recent and now prophetic film is Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes (aka Voldemort). It is still in cinemas I think. Also very good in my view.
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 21 2025 14:12 utc | 55
@Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 13:40 utc | 46
Si lees el link aportado arriba, en mi primer comentario, verás que él estuvo de acuerdo, con los grandes bancos y financieros transnacionales, en globalizar la esclavitud...
Cómo va a ser éste el mejor de los Papas...si a cada cuál es peor...
Por qué tenemos que respetar a esta "gente" que desde sus tribunas privilegiadas no hacen nada para parar esta vorágine de destrucción y robo a mano armada desatada abiertamente desde hace 5 años?
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 14:15 utc | 56
@Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 13:40 utc | 46
A cada cual peor, salvo aquellos a los que no les dejaron gobernar...y duraron días....
https://youtu.be/5HomNKxtxJ4?feature=shared
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 14:22 utc | 58
Catholicism is supposed to hold all life sacred, yet, the late Pope Francis never went to Gaza, and when he spoke of the Middle East crisis, he treated Israel and the Palestinians, the oppressor and the oppressed, as though they were equally responsible for it. Let's hope the next pope is Catholic.
Posted by: Janet | Apr 21 2025 14:24 utc | 60
RIP Francis, he was a good man I believe, too Liberal for my liking perchance but he lived like he preached and was a humble human being, I fear that the catholic Church in crisis will elect someone as populist as he, but and ideologues who will just deepen the issues, alienate the hard-core Conservative Christians to attract a cadre of god-knows-what freaks for just pure numbers.
Posted by: Mac Chiavelli | Apr 21 2025 14:28 utc | 61
🇱🇧 Lebanon's Hezbollah expresses condolences over Pope's deathHezbollah Lebanon:
We offer our condolences to the Vatican and all Christians, especially Lebanese Christians, on the passing of Pope Francis.He believed in peace and wanted to end wars.
With deep faith, he worked to create values of love and bridge between religions and civilizations to strengthen dialogue and justice.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 21 2025 14:29 utc | 62
I was hacked on my ass by Jesuits in high school for being developmentally disabled and asking impertinent questions.
The Catholic church has endorsed usury since the 1300 in direct opposition to that Jesus guy at the core of their myth.
For the mentally weak that can't handle not knowing there is religion while the rest of us live in awe of our existence.
I hope the next Pope is a humanist instead of a God Of Mammon exceptionalist
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 21 2025 14:48 utc | 63
Vatican City is a pure evil. War in Ukraine is a direct result of Vatican's work. Converting Serbs to catholics then creating a separate nation, decimated Serbian nation, that's Vaticans trade mark.
Thousand years of Vatican is nothing but work on extermination of the Orthodox faith.
Posted by: Preki | Apr 21 2025 14:48 utc | 64
Pope Francis the First was an outspoken defender of the oppressed people of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon was not afraid to state that publicly and repeatedly either.........
He stood up when no one would stand up for the Palestinians ........for that he deserves our eternal gratitude..........
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2025 14:50 utc | 65
Postado por: Fantasma de Mozgovoy | 21 de abril de 2025 14:08 UTC | 54...Entendo você, mas esta superestimando o poder papal.
Posted by: Aquino do CE/Brasil | Apr 21 2025 14:59 utc | 66
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 21 2025 13:32 utc | 41
he (Pope Francis) limited himself to talk....
<=Are you suggesting he could have changed the world order if he had called the Christians to defend lives under attack by nation state governments and the oligarchs that own them.
Posted by: snake | Apr 21 2025 15:04 utc | 67
And good for you if you do get the reference or figure it out. Did the clues help?
Too easy?
It is not important :)
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Apr 21 2025 13:21 utc | 39
The acronym part led nowhere, but top of mind I’d say noble rot, and reminds me of a Sauternes I keep for the next time I want to pair it with a fois gras
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 21 2025 15:05 utc | 68
Preki 64 - This pope did not try to advance the end of Orthodoxy, but strived to unite the Eastern and Western Churches, but he could have realized that the Neo Nazis and their titular leader Volo Zelenskyy was anathema to the Catholic Church as a whole.....
Volo was pledged to godless atheism and all its evils, such as Nazism......
I share your frustration at the attacks on Serbia and Russia..........and the current attempts by the Soros/WEC/Deep State to destroy Orthodox Russia and Serbia in detail.......we need to stick together!
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2025 15:06 utc | 69
@ Exile | Apr 21 2025 9:50 utc | 8
Sorry to offend you. No offense intended to Jesus. The Pope’s critics criticize what they perceive as a failure of the guy to live up to their and my expectations for someone of his stature. Yes, “realistically”, what should we expect? Perhaps we should set aside our principles for the sake of realism and accept moral leaders who do the same. But that seems like a contradiction. Plus, I’m unenthused with the idea. If a man claims to want the tough job and then doesn’t do what’s tough, then some of us will criticize his record.
What’s wrong enough with that for you to call it “anti-Christian hate”? I bet some of his critics identify strongly as “Christian”.
Posted by: I forgot | Apr 21 2025 15:21 utc | 71
Pope Francis: It Was A Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
"As a descendant of a residential school survivor, I know that survivors and their families want to see concrete actions following your apology, including the recognition of the 'doctrine of discovery'.
Considering that this is still enshrined in the Constitution and legal systems in Canada of the United States, whose Indigenous peoples continue to be defrauded of their lands and deprived of power, was it not a missed opportunity to make a statement to this effect during your trip to Canada?
'...It's true, yes, yes, it's genocide. You can all stay calm about this. You can report that I said that it was genocide.'
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 21 2025 15:25 utc | 72
Dunno why, but the first thought that popped up when Pope Frank's death was announced was the chorus of Carly Simon's Coming Around Again.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 21 2025 15:28 utc | 73
Well, I'm sort of surprised to see this write up. I could just be another victim of imperialist MSM but I do not recall this pope taking a strong, vocal stance against the Ukro and Zio Nazi variants. I do remember that he was very supportive of the Ukronazis initially and even hosted Zelinsky a few times.
Nonetheless, if his deeds were distorted by the media to lead be to believe he supported or quietly tolerated their infernal genocide, I am sorry he's no longer able to send that critical message to the world.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 21 2025 15:32 utc | 74
From nov. 2022
Pope Francis has described two of Russia’s ethnic minority groups, the Chechens and Buryats, as some of the “cruelest” troops fighting in Ukraine.
The pontiff was speaking in an interview with a Jesuit magazine, America, which was published on Monday but took place on November 22, according to the outlet.
“The cruelest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on,” he said. “I speak of a people who are martyred. If you have a martyred people, you have someone who martyrs them.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/29/europe/pope-francis-chechens-buryats-intl/index.html
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 15:33 utc | 75
I respect the late Pope Francis for being truly antiwar. He could have backed the nationalist Ukrainians over the Russians, as a Catholic vs Orthodox conflict (the most extreme anti-Russians in western Ukraine are Catholic), just like previous popes favored the Croatians vs the Serbs, but he didn't, and I respect him for that. RIP
Posted by: Antiwar7 | Apr 21 2025 15:33 utc | 76
According to the prophecy of Saint Malachy, Pope Francis was the last pope.
Requiescat in Pace
The world needs spiritual leaders that are more than politicians and theologians. That actually understand spirituality. That have first hand experience of transcendence, and do not consider it just like another social construct.
Posted by: Shahmaran | Apr 21 2025 15:42 utc | 77
Pope Francis was the only leader in the Western World to condemn the despicable zionist genocide of the innocent and righteous Palestinian people. I honor him.
Posted by: Argh | Apr 21 2025 11:25 utc | 17
When did the pope unconditially condem the genozide? I have seen more like this, not so condemning:
“I am thinking above all of those who leave Gaza in the midst of the famine that has struck their Palestinian brothers and sisters given the difficulty of getting food and aid into their territory,” the pontiff wrote.
Pls. enligthen me, and sorry if I am mistaken
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 15:45 utc | 78
I'm sure it's just coincidence that he popped his clogs (or silk slippers) immediately after Joe Dirt got an emergency audience.
Posted by: Bilejones | Apr 21 2025 16:08 utc | 80
If he was such a grand guy why didn't he excommunicate the Catholic Biden for being complicit in the genocide of Palestinians?
He was the Roman church version of Obama: a palliative for the liberals all the while not changing serious business. But what else can one expect from a Jesuit? (the shock troops of reaction)
Posted by: David Mack | Apr 21 2025 16:10 utc | 81
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 15:45 utc | 78
>>>
Since October 9, 2023, Pope Francis has been calling Gaza’s Holy Family Parish every evening sheltering 600 Christians and Muslims — brief conversations at 7 PM, marked by simple, human questions such as:
“How are you?”
“What did you eat? ”
January this year, he said:
“We cannot in any way accept the bombing of civilians … that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed.”
Posted by: pepe | Apr 21 2025 16:13 utc | 82
Há uma imensa ironia, hoje bem evidente, que nem o Papa Francisco nem os seus antecessores (desde o passamento de João Paulo II) conseguiram encarar: a de que não foi o ímpio Comunismo que destruiu o Catolicismo; o que destruiu e continua a demolir o Catolicismo foi o capitalismo selvagem e os seus agentes que viram no Cristianismo Católico um aliado fiel, empenhado e tão poderoso quanto dispensável mal os pruridos humanistas e tradicionalistas papais colocassem o mínimo obstáculo ao prosseguimento da demolição sangrenta e sistemática daquilo a que sempre chamámos de Civilização. Daí se depreende facilmente que o bom do Papa Francisco teve o grande azar de viver o seu papado numa camisa de forças construída com a vigarice nihilista do suposto progressismo LGTBQ+++++, de um lado, e com a sanha imperialista, belicista e assassina de velhos aliados (inesquecível aquela audiência papal a um cocainómano ucraniano rodeado de neonazis em camuflado), de um outro lado, tentando manter um equilíbrio precário que salvasse a Santa Madre Igreja de mais uma torrente de denúncias de actos pouco católicos infligidos a meninos e meninas por gente de batina.
Posted by: Giap | Apr 21 2025 16:25 utc | 83
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 21 2025 15:06 utc | 69
The NAZI's were very much theistic. Atheists were among the first people they murdered. read a fucking book moron.
Posted by: Badjoke | Apr 21 2025 16:26 utc | 84
A man is Dead. Of modest beginnings he began as a Bouncer in Buenos Aires, like all earthly men, he had failings but on balance he did more good than many and certainly...all of his many critics and naywishers.
One would have hoped that that Moon's cacophony of anonymous online critics would have taken a day off from their constant criticism but, I find it is not so; how fitting it is then that Francis died before satisfying all their demands. A bar too high? Yes, I think so, fortunately, the teachings of the Church asks us to be forgiving so that we in turn may be forgiven. May all his sins, real or perceived be forgiven.
Perhaps that's Francis's final legacy then, an eternal disengagement to the discomfort of far distant disparagers who's standards will be forever be unmet.
Posted by: S Brennan | Apr 21 2025 16:27 utc | 85
An old man in a white costume dies - (thousands of old men die every day) - and half the Christian church (Catholics especially) think this old man is a great loss to the world, the church is one of the most corrupt, lying propaganda machines on the planet - as well as being one of the oldest - it has inflicted misery and suffering on millions over the centuries - and when it suits it - it changes its political/moral stance to meet with popular opinion - its a useful tool to wield against the poor and zealous observant - preaching morality, when there's little morality within the church itself, no doubt the same out pouring would occur in foreign lands if say the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia died or Khamenei of Iran died -also tow- old men in costumes.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 21 2025 16:34 utc | 86
Posted by: S Brennan | Apr 21 2025 16:27 utc | 85
I’m actually quite close to what he did to be disparaging him. And my unmet standards are ‘don’t cover up your organizational engagement in child sexual abuse.’ Too high for a pope maybe, but I don’t think they are out of the realm of regular people.
Posted by: Caveman | Apr 21 2025 16:42 utc | 87
Shahmaran | Apr 21 2025 15:42 utc | 77
"According to the prophecy of Saint Malachy, Pope Francis was the last pope.
From St. Malachy => "Peter"; The next and final pope then should be "Peter Romanus." (I think Peter was Francis of Assise's father.)
From Chay Bowes on X. => "Romanus" (The Roman, or - from Rome); Today, 21st April 2025, in Rome, the direct successor to the Roman Emperor —"Pontifex Maximus" died. Exactly 2.778 years after the city of Rome was allegedly founded by Romulus and Remus on 21st of April 753 BC.
I suspect that you may be right that he will be the last Pope. It is clear that the Zionist blockage of the Popes Envoy to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday is only a foreboding of what they will try to do next.
The Vatican has been compromised ever since it entered the EU system and took the euro. Now an audit is a cudgel on them. This guy was annoying at best, but only did as he was told.
Posted by: seer | Apr 21 2025 16:59 utc | 89
Gaza's Christians 'heartbroken' for pope who phoned them nightly
Members of Gaza's tiny Christian community said they were "heartbroken" on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, who campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave and spoke to them on the phone every evening throughout the war. (...)
"We lost a saint who taught us every day how to be brave, how to keep patient and stay strong. We lost a man who fought every day in every direction to protect this small herd of his," George Antone, 44, head of the emergency committee at the Holy Family Church in Gaza, told Reuters.
Francis called the church hours after the war in Gaza began in October 2023, Antone said, the start of what the Vatican News Service would describe as a nightly routine throughout the war. He would make sure to speak not only to the priest but to everyone else in the room, Antone said.
"We are heartbroken because of the death of Pope Francis, but we know that he is leaving behind a church that cares for us and that knows us by name - every single one of us," Antone said, referring to the Christians of Gaza who number in the hundreds. (...)
In Lebanon, where a war between Israel and Hezbollah caused widespread casualties and extensive damage last year, sending millions from their homes, members of the Catholic Maronite community spoke of Francis' frequent mentions of their plight.
"He's a saint for us because he carried Lebanon and the Middle East in his heart, especially in the last period of war," said a priest in the southern Lebanese town of Rmeish, which was badly damaged during Israel's military campaign last year.
"We always felt he was very involved and he mobilised all the Catholic institutions and funds to help Lebanon throughout the crises that we went through," said Marie-Jo Dib, who works at a social foundation in Lebanon.
"He was a rebel and I really pray that the next pope will be like him," she added. (...)
https://www.reuters.com/world/gazas-christians-heartbroken-pope-who-phoned-them-nightly-2025-04-21/
Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 21 2025 17:03 utc | 90
The Washington Post's report this morning on the Pope's death makes no mention of his final statement, on Gaza.
Posted by: Lysias | Apr 21 2025 17:03 utc | 91
Mister Speeks (89).
Well you may find this interesting then.
"China seems to have successfully detonated a non nuclear hydrogen bomb made of magnesium hydride, which triggered a devastating chemical chain reaction without using any nuclear materials.
The temperature of the explosion fireball exceeded 1000 degrees Celsius and lasted for more than two seconds, 15 times longer than the duration of a TNT explosion.
Although this thing is not a nuclear weapon, its power is comparable to that of a nuclear weapon. Its biggest advantage is no pollution, no nuclear radiation, toxic substances or geological pollution will be produced after the explosion, and the energy conversion efficiency is high.
If magnesium hydride can trigger a nuclear explosion, it seems that many elements, not necessarily uranium or plutonium, also can trigger a nuclear explosion under certain technological conditions, which may change the rules of future human nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 21 2025 17:05 utc | 92
the teachings of the Church asks us to be forgiving so that we in turn may be forgiven. May all his sins, real or perceived be forgiven.
Posted by: S Brennan | Apr 21 2025 16:27 utc | 85
not such a hard concept
or maybe judge not ...
Posted by: Social_Misfit | Apr 21 2025 17:08 utc | 93
Although this thing is not a nuclear weapon, its power is comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 21 2025 17:05 utc | 93
It is not, at least what I read was that it had half the explosion range of equivalent TNT but higher and specially longer lasting heat.
2 kg tnt would cause serious damage up to 5 m (give or take)
This one makes a small 2 meter radius inferno.
A thermobaric by nay other name...
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 21 2025 17:18 utc | 94
“We cannot in any way accept the bombing of civilians … that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed.”
Posted by: pepe | Apr 21 2025 16:13 utc | 82
Jan 2025:
In January 2025, he called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza "very serious and shameful" and firmly stated: "We cannot in any way accept the bombing of civilians … that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed."
"Very serious and shameful" is not calling it Genozide. He is not naming or pointing to the genozider but delivers fluffy lines.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Apr 21 2025 17:21 utc | 95
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Apr 21 2025 17:05 utc | 93
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Just another point I forgot, the biggest point was that magnesium hydride used to be made in the grams range (hard to produce, high pressure high temperature process) , having 2 kgs to just blow up seemed extravagant, until you read (also in the article but just what i remember) that china opened a factory that will produce it in the tens or hundreds of tons a year...
The availability of solid hydrogen storrage moving up several (10?) magnitudes is the difference between a curiosity and something you can use for several ends.
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 21 2025 17:24 utc | 96
As nobody mentioned before
Putin calls Pope's passing during Easter period 'special sign' (in Orthodox tradition, there is a belief that if the Lord calls a person to himself on the Easter holy days, it is a special sign that the person has not lived his life in vain)
The Russian president stressed that "the Pope did much good not only for his flock, but for the world as a whole"
https://tass.com/society/1946957
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 21 2025 17:28 utc | 97
@Ciaran | 50
two things in contradiction such as two different religions cannot both be true at the same time.
Allow me to correct this attempt at formulating the principle known as tertium non datur which goes back to Aristotle and serves as the foundation of his logic. I'll start with an example:
A person can be good and bad at the same time - like when a soldier kills to defend his homeland against the barbarians. An item to buy can be both cheap and expensive - like a loaf of bread in Gaza. Etc.
So the wording must be "a statement about a thing cannot be true and untrue at the same time".
However, this leaves out something else, which I might call the regard (Deutsch: Hinsicht) through which a person views the thing in question. A few more examples:
It's raining, but I have an umbrella. This beer is fine, but I've had enough. Maths is cool, but I prefer you and him calculate x. Etc.
So, tying it all in, we get:
A statement about a thing cannot be both true and untrue, at the same time, and in the same regard.
The latter part is often ommited, but in fact it's very necessary to get a meaningful statement, and yes, Aristotle uses that very formulation in the original texts (cf. Erwin Sonderegger).
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 21 2025 17:29 utc | 98
Thank goodness he didn't protest too strongly. Might have made those responsible for the genocide uncomfortable. Can you imagine had he spoken out the way posters here have condemned the genocide?
Posted by: EoinW | Apr 21 2025 17:46 utc | 99
@Paul from Norway
""Very serious and shameful" is not calling it Genozide. He is not naming or pointing to the genozider but delivers fluffy lines."
The problem is, the genoziders control the sites most holy to the Catholics. What would happen if the Pope would call the genoziders what they are?
Well, they would probably deny Catholics access to the holy sites. And the Vatican would probably lose any influence over the Zionists that might have enabled them to at least somewhat improve the situation of the people in the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 21 2025 17:57 utc | 100
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When principles matter.
Now let us see who takes the burden.
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