I’m not going to dance on his grave.
I understand that this is a sensitive moment for the Catholic Church.
The most respectful thing I can say about this is 1.) that I hope the next pope is more like Pope Benedict XVI than Pope Francis and 2.) that Catholics don’t have to defend Jorge Bergoglio anymore.
“Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age 88, the Vatican announced.
The big picture: Pope Francis pushed the Catholic Church to the left, which satisfied Catholics seeking modernization but dismayed traditionalists. …”
I’m also not going to sit here and claim that modern Lutheran leaders are any better. I have explained many times here that sadly our leaders are just as cucked as the Catholics.
Note: As Lutherans, we don’t have to think of Matt Harrison as the Holy Father. We don’t have to pretend that he is infallible or the Vicar of Christ on earth.
May he find peace.
“I’m also not going to sit here and claim that modern Lutheran leaders are any better. I have explained many times here that sadly our leaders are just as cucked as the Catholics.”
You are comparing apples to oranges. It would be better to compare Lutheran’s various sects in America with the Catholic Church in America. Then things become clearer. Likewise Globally. For example, the Lutheran Church heriarchy is more traditionalist than the Roman Catholic Church worldwide. Same holds true for all of the other Protestant denominations.
The problem with White Protestant Churches, like White Protestant countries, is their leadership is not reflective of their White members. The same is in White Catholic countries and White Catholic Churcbes. But there is a difference.
While White Protestant leaders are liberal their members are conservative. In contrast, while White Catholic leaders are more centrist even conservative, their members are more liberal. We see that reflective in political or ideological surveys. White Protestant Americans are far more conservative than White Catholic Americans. Contradistinctly, White Protestant leaders are more liberal than White Catholic leaders.
So, what we have here is a divergence of leadership with laity. One shifts liberal to its members, the other shifts conservative to its members. That is why the Catholic heirarchy is consistently trying to corral free roaming blackpilled White Protestant laity into the Catholic fold especially thru political means like how rightwing groups always seem to have Papists in charge.
Because the Roman Catholic church is heriarchial and bureaucratic its leadership has an outside influence on the superficial posture of the church. This makes alot of unaffiliated White Protestants attracted to the uniform dogma and tradition of the Catholic clergy.
But, the reality is far from this truth. None more so than realizing Roman Catholic Cardinals elected a liberal Anti-Anglo Jesuit just after electing a conservative Anti-Anglo Anti-Lutheran German. The one consistent truth? Anti-Anglo-Protestants both of them. But, Hunter, the wayward Protestant still unsure about his Lutheran leadership, still thought the later was cool and thats how the Movement brought in Papists who took it over and sent it down the drain while corrode a load of former Protestants into the Whore’s Church.
Meanwhile, the world awaits who the conclave of Cardinals will elect as the next Pontifix Maximus, the Supreme Pontif, the Vicar of Christ, the Regent of God, the Prince Bishop of Rome, and Supreme Ruler of all Christendom, the so called Pope of Roman Catholicism. Will it be another Italian or will it be a non-Italian? Is it qas important as worrying about “Duh, Jew”? Time will tell. Note, Pope Francis is described as the first non-European and South American. The fact is, he was Italian from Argentina and voted in Italian elections.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/04/21/who-will-be-next-pope-candidates/80000828007/ He also, never stopped being a Jesuit.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/04/21/pope-francis-death-jesuit-obituary-249957
Meanwhile lots of intrigued will be going on and has been for the last year or so. Cardinals have resigned, sickened, died, etc. How many Vatican Deep State, Mafiosi, Bankers will die in the coming days? Lots. It happens every election, both just before, during and after a new Pope is made. But no one talks about it. Instead we get to talk about JProof coins. You know who rules you by how you aren’t allowed to talk about them but you are allowed to talk about others.
https://youtu.be/5uK3wYrl3aU?si=P5uF4jh6VtVE46IT
Have you considered the Baptists? I think we hold the fort better than any other as far as American Christendom goes.
Thank you Brad, you as always are intellectually honest. As you know I come from Italy which is the location of the Pope. I’m not religious and I disliked this Pope from the beginning, I appreciated Benedict XV and John Paul II but not this Pope. The Pope (even for me that I don’t attend the church) is one of those international figures of a certain importance. I hope the next pope will be different from this one.
Two weeks after Uncle Ted died. There is no mention of where Uncle Ted has been buried in media. The Italian Mafioso are Catholic but they are all buried in Lutheran cemeteries. The Catholics do not want them. I wonder where Uncle Ted is buried. Do the Catholics still consider him one of their own?