Tuesday, 22 April 2025

One Pope Out, Another One In

Following Pope Francis's death, the papal conclave will elect a new pope and the favourites are the Italians Pietro Parolin and Matteo Zuppi but the race to the Vatican to become Gods mouthpiece also includes a Portuguese, an Hungarian and a Spaniard.  
Although we flipped the Catholic Church the finger almost 500 years ago, respectfully the Church of England waffled something about God and Churches but i lost interest to be honest, Catholic people are normally dependable in that their views are set out for them and they just follow them slavishly so a priest tells them they hate gays, abortion is wrong, women should not become Priests and unless you devote yourself to God, you have a snowball in Hell's chance of getting through the Pearly gates.
Then, along came Pope Francis and he sends their head spinning by not hating gays, saying the Church needs more women involved, divorce is okay, abortion is a decision for the mother not the Church and Atheists can get into Heaven as God would forgive their unbelief.
Once upon a time you knew where Catholics stood on their beliefs, circa 1450, but Francis did seem to at least try and drag them into the modern age but then he had to really because religion is increasingly obsolete and irrelevant today and the religious money spinner was going the way of the Dodo.
When he was alive I really didn't take much notice of him but my Papal highlight was when Donald Trump and his strange family met Pope Francis.
The Pope made no secret that he really disliked Trump and never tried to hide it by keeping his sulky glum face on during his entire visit and even in the official photo. Nice one Pope.

2 comments:

Not really a blog said...

yeah, irrelevant. more anxiety, depression, greed (if you listen to the left), drug abuse, alcohol abuse than ever, but the declining belief in a being that offers eternal happiness and hope is uncorrelated.

Anonymous said...

Happiness and hope indeed.