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If God existed, I doubt he goes around with a magic cancer wand. That being said, Pope Leo isn't a good person, he just has a good media team.
Why do you say that?
Original sin baybeee!
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He doesn't support women in the ministry, vilified the LGBTQ community and most importantly, protected pedo priests.
I mean... would he have even been allowed to be the Pope if he didn't do those things? (let's not pretend the Pope is actually a divine appointment)
I'd argue striving to be head of one of the most hateful orgs automatically makes you bad person. Protecting pedos comes with the territory but doesn't give him a pass so to speak.
What I mean is, the people who decide who is pope were never going to allow someone the title who would fight back against those topics.
It doesn't matter how good or bad he is.
And my point is he is a bad person, maybe the best we could hope for but still a bad person.
I never said I expected better, just that the media lays it on thick and that it's laughable all the rubes that praise a guy who shrouds himself in homophobia and trans hate, and who protects pedophiles.
Literally and directly better than someone who'd want to bring the crusades back...
You're really trying to make perfect the enemy of good here.
That's not entirely true. While he doesn't support women in the priesthood or as bishops (as set in Catholic dogma), he has placed women in high administrative positions within the Vatican, which is something other popes haven't done.
Also not true. He's pushed a policy of welcoming all people, and while it's true he doesn't support gay marriage, that is again due to established Catholic dogma and has been much more progressive than previous popes.
I can't say whether or not that's true, I can't find any instances of him protecting pedo priests.
Admin positions aren't the Ministry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq
https://snapnetwork.org/2025/12/08/pope-leo-helped-shield-clergy-accused-of-abuse-in-peru-abuse-survivors-allege/
There's another case in Chicago if I recall correctly
In any case, being gay is still considered a sin and he was at a pedo priests birthday party 3 years ago. He's being told to pander by his media team, but absolutely nothing has changed and he's more than likely a hateful power hungry horrorshow. He's at a minimum worst than Francis (not saying much, every Pope is a low bar)
The whole org is a fucking shit show, I can't believe people are actually buying this stuff.
What constitutes a "good" person?
I'd argue with how pathetically shitty the average person is, that Leo is, in fact, a good person, whether or not you believe in any sort of divine guidance.
Hell, he doesn't even have to be a good Christian (by teachings, not Christian acts) to never the less end up on the 'good' half of humanity!
He's JK Rowling level bad.
That's ... rather abstract. Besides, hating trans people is (sadly) still not a guarantee to find yourself on the 'bad' 50% of humanity. ... and that's assuming that only 50% of humanity is bad, which is rather forgiving!
Well he hates AI too, because it threatens the confession booth. And trans people hate AI girlfriends because they demonstrate that love was never gated by an expensive operation; while Hinton, the father of backprop, considers AI conscious already. So there's that. In general the more someone thinks they're the Good Guys, the more they're the Bad Guys. Now watch Lemmy turn into a mental pretzel to justify their own hatred of AI while missing the parallel with the cotton plantations wherein black people were also treated as unconscious and inferior. I'll see myself out before my inbox fills with comments calling me a loser for siding with Turing.
rofl trans people getting operations has less than nothing to do with... what ever the hell you think.