Pope calls for same sex 'civil union' laws.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Wow?
Pope Francis is so based

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While I expect heavy 'clarification', this is quite a significant statement even if every aspect of social conscience is rung out of it by the Vatican at a later point.

What do you mean by this?

This would of course be a backtracking in places like the US and much of Latin America, but in conservative Catholic societies elsewhere in the Global South and even in Italy itself it's a green light for a pretty significant step.

??

[Battista Minola 1616]

This would of course be a backtracking in places like the US and much of Latin America, but in conservative Catholic societies elsewhere in the Global South and even in Italy itself it's a green light for a pretty significant step.

??

I didn't realize Italy already had civil unions. For some reason I thought it was still in the "registered cohabitation" stage.

Ah sorry. Yes, we have since 2016. The good times of the spicy Tuscan woke neoliberal Renzi government...

[Battista Minola 1616]

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Bad last few news cycles for radtrad issues between this and the pachamamista landslide in Bolivia.

Don't forget Unbeatable Titan Susanna Ceccardi exactly one month ago.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Not sure that's a Protestantisation. Not like Catholics haven't been ambivalent about many Popes in the past: Dante in the Comedy put Pope Boniface VIII in hell.

It is one thing to mock an ex Pope - the Catholic Church itself has picked who was and was not Pope post facto, for a variety of reasons. But if the current “Vicar of Christ” is mediocre at best, why on earth or in heaven would you recognize his authority?

Except that in the same canto Dante puts Clement V beside Boniface VIII, and Clement V was the reigning Pope at the time the Inferno was written.
Actually Dante had much sympathy towards the Emperor and very little towards the Popes for a Guelph... indeed in one of the most famous verses of Italian literature, Ugo Foscolo called him a ghibellin fuggiasco (fleeing Ghibelline).