It’s pretty much guaranteed that whenever Francis pops his clogs the next pope will be ultra right-wing. Francis has been shitty in many ways, but as modern popes go he’s been more on the tolerant side of things. That’s pissed off a bunch of hard-right cardinals. So the next one will almost certainly be an opus dei fascist. At that point many will probably be looking at Francis with a little bit more nostalgia.

Should’ve prayed harder.

Reminder that this guy was a right wing, homophobic windbag long before he was pope and the Vatican PR department started making look like a saint. He does nothing but spew hollow, PR written platitudes and says a lot of nice things without backing them up with actions. He still denies meetings with rape victims of his clergy, still stone walls them with lawyers, still shuffling around pedo priests to hide them. He’s as evil as any pope that has come before

Sooo… black smoke in 3-2-1?

Interesting bit of trivia for anyone interested in such things:

In 1595, a “prophecy” was published claiming to predict all the Popes through the end times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

Benedict was the last one on the list. So we’re in uncharted territory until “Peter the Roman” ends it all by destroying Rome.

I hope he is in agony.