"Two people who were widely reviled in the Epstein files were Pope Francis and Barack Obama.

Live your life in such a way that Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump despise you."

~ Sara Reichard

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #SteveBannon #PopeFrancis
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https://www.threads.com/@canute2012/post/DUbR1TGgMwn

I Worked for Pope Francis by Daniel B. Gallagher

I appreciated this first-hand account of what it was like to work for the pope, written by a longtime papal secretary: "He met people where they were at and welcomed any opportunity to dialogue, even if his words and gestures were misinterpreted or usurped." —Harris @ Medium

https://medium.com/@frdbg70/i-worked-for-pope-francis-here-is-what-he-was-really-like-e6931c449e27

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#PopeFrancis#Medium

as i said before,
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114375252519201798

am speaking about the Catholic Church, the OG corporatist organization. they literally invented management by committee. RCC bureaucracy is legendary.

so i get why the Catholic LGBTQI community considers #PopeFrancis the most revolutionary pope ever:

❝ Pope Francis was a pastoral revolutionary for LGBTQ Catholics | National Catholic Reporter https://www.ncronline.org/news/pope-francis-was-pastoral-revolutionary-lgbtq-catholics

…🧵

it is because he was a street priest that when Andrea Conocchia, one of the Italian street priests #PopeFrancis had in his confidence, introduced him to a group of Latina trangender prostitutes during the pandemic close downs, that he had them and others sit at his lunch table on Wednesdays
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-26/the-trans-women-who-sat-with-pope-francis-he-told-me-not-to-lose-faith-because-we-are-all-equal-in-the-eyes-of-god.html

…🧵

y’all may not know there was a time #PopeFrancis wanted to be a biologist. it was during his youth years working as an assistant at a laboratory that he met Esther Ballesteros, the woman who he ended up looking up to as mentor.

he looked up to Ballestero not only thru those formative years but later on as a priest & bishop, after she co-founded Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and she herself was tortured, disappeared and murdered as part of USA’s #OperationCondor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

…🧵

it’s in DO UNTO OTHERS that #PopeFrancis worked all his life. his catholicism lived in his doing unto others.

and it was from women that he learned this praxis, DURING THE WORST OF ARGENTINA’S DICTATORSHIP YEARS.

and it is thanks to Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo that we had a Papa Quico

❝ Quién fue Esther Ballestrino, la mujer que fue clave en la formación política del papa Francisco antes de ser desaparecida por la dictadura argentina
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c1mnr27mkvyo

…🧵

COMMUNION IS THE LIFE SOURCE OF CATHOLICISM
to deny communion is the worst kind of ostracism a Catholic can suffer. because the Church is saying, there is nothing you can do, no penance, nothing, that will make you worthy of communion.

THIS IS WHAT IS RADICAL ABOUT #PopeFrancis

in christian doctrine, there are 7 virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, faith, hope & charity. depending on your flavor of christianity, some are more emphasized than the others.

Papa Quico put CHARITY first …🧵

why is his letter about trans godmothers and godfathers important?

BECAUSE TO BE A GODMOTHER AND GODFATHER YOU HAVE TO:
- BE BAPTIZED
- TAKE COMMUNION
- GO THRU CONFIRMATION

baptismal and confirmation are one-off catholic rites, but COMMUNION IS THE ON-GOING COMMITMENT BETWEEN THE CHURCH & HER CHILDREN.

so, if you know NOTHING about what it means to be a Catholic, you wouldn't understand the nuanced radicalism of Jorge Bergoglio as both a priest and as #PopeFrancis …🧵

and again, don’t give a fuck about your anti-papism today.

today isn’t about you.

this is for the Catholics for whom this information is important.

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

this is how bad things were with the Catholic Church before Pope Francis: they didn’t recognize rape of adults by, nor within, the priesthood:

❝ VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.❞

https://apnews.com/article/europe-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-laws-religion-6aa5ce9537419375091fdcf335c74f78

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

PS:

about his handling of the rapists ―becuase they weren’t just pedophiles. many nuns and priests had their Me Too moment: he abolished the one protection that helped the predators avoid the criminal courts:

PONTIFICAL SECRECY

“The Pope abolishes the pontifical secret in cases of sexual abuse”
Vatican News - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-12/pope-abolishes-pontifical-secret-sexual-abuse-clergy.html

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

BTW this is why a lot of y’all might not even read a seemingly inocuous news articles like this one, about a group of catholic transgender women, some of them sex workers, being able to go to mass and take communion at the Vatican:

“For this group of trans women, the pope and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change” https://apnews.com/article/vatican-transgender-lgbtq-b3d67868504ba701cce09da9ecc94de0

these news clips are for the Catholic LGBTQI who care about this.

this isnt for you, atheists.

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

NO. it didn’t change the pope’s mind on gender affirming health care.

BUT THIS IS THE FUCKING CATHOLIC CHURCH WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

BUT IT’S A BIG FUCKING DEAL he took an audience with LGBTQI Catholics to talk about their disappointment on his letter on the matter:

“Transgender and intersex Catholics ask pope to rethink church stance on gender-affirming care | National Catholic Reporter”
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/transgender-and-intersex-catholics-ask-pope-rethink-church-stance-gender

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

this is the fucking Catholic Church we are talking about.

no, anything that veers from essentialism isn’t going to be immediately embraced; but since a lot of you know shit about catholicism, transgender people were usually ostracized from churches, as in not allowed to even listen to mass; even less take communion. that changed with Papa Quico:

“Transgender people can be baptised and be godparents, Vatican says” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67366198

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP

❝ The value of this document, however, is that it offers a specific and innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings, which is closely linked to a liturgical perspective. ❞

“Read the full text of the Vatican's declaration approving blessings for same-sex couples - Outreach” https://outreach.faith/2023/12/read-the-full-text-of-the-vaticans-declaration-approving-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/

#PapaQuico#PopeFrancis#PapaFrancisco#RIP