Pope Francis: I don’t bless a ‘homosexual marriage.’ I bless two people who love each other.

A less hypocritical Catholic Church would be nice. I wish Francis luck, he’ll need it to push the right wing of the church to be less shitty.

My family is super Catholic & conservative. They hate the Pope and it’s so weird - growing up in Catholic school, one good thing I’ll say is that we were educated in almost every aspect of that religion and its history.

So even though I can’t remember the last time I was in a church, I do remember shit like “the pope can talk to god”.

Now, of course it’s bullshit, but I have to assume that’s the premise we start from here. If so, shut the fuck up. He talks to god. End of story.

And somewhat related - they’re MAGA types. They like their dictators. Fuck off. This is what you get.

I don't like that popes exist. I'm pretty sure if we took proper care of all people, religion would poof away in short order. That said, if popes have to exist this guy is a wonderful Pope. He's not dismantling the place from the inside or anything but he is pushing them to be decent people. He's pushing them to make more sympathetic decisions. We just look at this more shocking public statements and go well f*** yeah why doesn't everybody say this, but for him in the position where he is he doesn't have to and it's kind of a big deal that he does.

I'm not a religious person, but I think some views in this thread are coming off a bit narcissistic and ignorant. Religion has been a large part of humanity for literally forever, and people can't expect it to just go away completely. People turn to religion for comfort, often when they won't receive it in other ways. There will always be someone in the world who needs religion, and we all need to coexist. The important thing here is he is attempting to drive his members to be empathetic and improve moral compass. Just be grateful for that at least. People expect too much.

still catholic. still the pope. no matter how progressive he may seem.

He's WRONG and should be PUNISHED!

-Christofacists who want their Religious Leaders to write the Laws.

People who act shocked that a priest would bless a gay couple but have no problem with him blessing a crooked businessman are hypocrites, Pope Francis said.

Did something come up about priests blessing crooked businessmen, or is he just speaking in general terms?

Based.

When even Pope, a person normally in charge of maintaining a rather conservative society, tells you so, you know it's time to act

Old irrelevant fuck continues to try and rehabilitate a dying organization's image before the history books can slam shut on its chapter. Tear down the churches and build something useful instead, that's a lot of wasted space in cities across the world.

I don’t need your blessing. Thanks.

Celibate crossdresser, head of notorious pedophile network, weighs in on gay marriage.

Some weeks back he also put Marxism in a good light. He's been unusually based lately.

Pretty hilarious that the pope, they guy sitting in a golden throne, is saying that the worst sins are made by people who pretend to be angelic.

Yeha man, look at how corrupt the Vatican is and what it pretends to be.

Shameless.

Maybe this will make people finally stop calling him "the cool pope?"

It's all lip service. He's no better than any of the others. He just talks a good game.

It's almost time you guys.