a triumph of rebranding

[kindkit]

So, the Catholic Church has gone from a pope who joined the Hitler Youth as a young man in order to get a scholarship to attend the seminary, to one who was actively complicit in the murders committed by the Argentinian military regime of the 1970s and early 1980s. He not only turned a blind eye to the murder of liberal priests, but reportedly hid

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[inamac]

Also, since the new Pope is a Jesuit I would assume that his name references Francis Xavier rather than the fluffy animals saint.

[kindkit]

Apparently an Official Vatican Spokesman has said that it refers to St. Francis of Assisi, though I would imagine it refers to St. Francis Xavier as well.

Normally I have a lot of admiration for the Jesuits--I'm not Catholic, but they seem like both the most intellectually rigorous and the most ethically sound (as in, more interested in social justice than in people's sex lives) part of the Catholic Church. The new pope, alas, does not seem to part of this fine Jesuit tradition.

[skull_bearer]

If the last one was emperor Palpatine I suggest this one is Vorbis from Pratchett's Small Gods.