RIP Pope Francis
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I blame Vance
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My condolences.
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RIP, the first American pope!
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R.I.P., most noble gentleman.
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Sad to hear. Now the politics begin being the seens at the Vatican.
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Sad to hear. Now the politics begin being the seens at the Vatican.
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That's really fucked up.
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That hag’s face really begs a brick.
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lol
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Well, I’m sad. I liked this pope. I was glued to the live broadcasts when he visited Canada, specifically here in Alberta in 2022. His words and prayers were heartfelt, sincere. Made me reflect and commit being a better person. Perhaps @Tom-K knows, @Ivorythumper for sure, but what are the specific prayers we Catholics pray after a pope dies? Rosaries?
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I thought he was supposed to be the false pope or something? What does Nostradamus have to say about all this?
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I thought he was supposed to be the false pope or something? What does Nostradamus have to say about all this?
wrote 8 days ago last edited by Doctor Phibes@LuFins-Dad said in RIP Pope Francis:
What does Nostradamus have to say about all this?
I've not heard of him. Was he the much rumoured fifth Ninja Turtle?
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https://fortune.com/article/pope-francis-vatican-finances-reform/
Even on his deathbed, Pope Francis didn’t pause from pursuing a dogged campaign that distinguished his reign: reforming the Vatican’s infamously troubled finances. On February 27, the pontiff’s 13th day at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital suffering from exhaustion and bronchitis, the pontiff unveiled the formation of a high-level commission assigned to raise donations for helping plug chronic budget deficits. Francis launched the fund-raising enterprise as a gambit aimed at blunting demands by top officials in the Curia, his vast administrative arm, that the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics halt his drive for deep spending cuts. The bureaucrats bristled at the Pope’s recent draconian moves: Since 2021, he’d slashed salaries for the Church’s 250-odd cardinals three times. In 2023, he nixed the rich housing subsidies for elite staff, and last September for the first time in decades demanded that the Vatican set a rigorous timeline for achieving a “zero deficit” regime.
Quite an interesting story on the finance reforms that Pope Francis tried (and partially succeeded) with the Catholic Church
