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Pope Francis fires conservative Texas bishop who opposed LGBTQ reforms (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 120 points 10 months ago

"heard you was talking shit." - The Pope, probably

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

"Fuck that guy!" - The Pope, probably

[-] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

*boy

[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 87 points 10 months ago

These people keep talking about Jesus, but if the Jesus they talk about and describe in their holy book ever actually had to come back, he wouldn't last ten minutes until they'd call him radical leftie, an SJW and a 'danger to the world' and crucify him again.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 38 points 10 months ago

He'd walk onto Wall Street, start flipping tables, and be shot on the spot

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Wall Street maybe not. Flipping out in Joel Osteen's megachurch would be biblically accurate however.

[-] clutch@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Any megachurch, to be honest. Any thing Pat Robertson did, that guy with the crazy demon eyes, Joel Osteen, etc

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

that guy with crazy demon eyes

Kenneth Copeland?

[-] clutch@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

That's the one. The possessed one.

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 81 points 10 months ago

Papal infallibility is also traditional doctrine. Sounds like some people really want to be excommunicated.

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

It's only infallible when it's the message you want to hear. If the message isn't to your liking then it must be the work of the devil. Very similar to "he's not hurting the right people".

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 15 points 10 months ago

Indeed. I was trying to (probably too obliquely) highlight how futile it is to inject any logic or reasoning into the situation, given the subject matter.

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

With that, the Roman Catholic Church is now about one century more progressive than the Mormons. Still a brainwashing and abusive cult...but they all are.

[-] SirStumps@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Equally social media is a brainwashing and abusive cult as well.

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Man, how backwards do you have to be to be behind the Catholic church?

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

I mean, I'll take the Catholic church any day over American christo-fascists. At least the church is willing to (very slowly) evolve with the times, meanwhile the christo-fascists are busy creating their own al qaeda clones.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Church is only doing this because it's slowly losing its grip on power. American protestants are rewarded for their extremism with more power.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 13 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Pope Francis forcibly removed a conservative Texas bishop who had been a staunch critic of his progressive reforms of the Catholic Church.

The Vatican announced on Saturday 11 November that Bishop Joseph Strickland had been “relieved” of his position as the head of the Diocese of Tyler after the pope ordered an “apostolic visitation” in June.

Bishop Strickland emerged as a leading critic of the pontiff, claiming his leadership was “undermining the Deposit of Faith” and amplifying videos on social media that described Francis as a “diabolically disordered clown.”

Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, said in a statement that his removal came after the Vatican ordered an investigation into “all aspects of the governance and leadership”.

This week, the Pope said that the church would allow transgender Catholics to be baptised and serve as godparents as long as it did not create scandal or “confusion”.

He has previously stated that gay marriages could be blessed and the church was “open to all” as part of growing outreach to the LGBTQ community.

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[-] profdc9@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Ex bishop is probably going to start his own Catholic Church with hookers and blackjack.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

It'll be a rerun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bawden

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're joking. The Pope? Oh my God

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