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INBELLA<p>JD Vance and Pope Leo: The Backdrop to an Inauguration <a href="https://www.inbella.com/1055593/jd-vance-and-pope-leo-the-backdrop-to-an-inauguration/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inbella.com/1055593/jd-vance-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-pope-leo-the-backdrop-to-an-inauguration/</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a>(USPolitics) <a href="https://channels.im/tags/J" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>J</span></a>.D. <a href="https://channels.im/tags/LeoXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeoXIV</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RomanCatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Royal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Royal</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalFamilies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalFamilies</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalFamily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalFamily</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalGossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalGossip</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Royals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Royals</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RoyalsGossip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalsGossip</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a></p>
ZZ Bottom<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/NSFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSFW</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PopeLeoXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopeLeoXiv</span></a> <br>As all the others <a href="https://c.im/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> i just do not give a damn about what he thinks, wishes or represents, just another bozo as all religious leaders, for sure not representing the spirit of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> that never spoke against the lbgt+ community at the time!</p>
Bytes Europe<p>Trump Denies Posting a Purported A.I. Image of Himself as Pope <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/991634/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/991634/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Dolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dolan</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldJ</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Francis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JD</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RomanCatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TimothyM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothyM</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vance</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>A Conclave Like No Other <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/991339/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/991339/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AmbongoBesungu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmbongoBesungu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Anders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anders</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Arborelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arborelius</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cardinals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cardinals</span></a>(RomanCatholicPrelates) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Francis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Fridolin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fridolin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GerhardLudwig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerhardLudwig</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Muller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Muller</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Parolin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parolin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Pierbattista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pierbattista</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Pietro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pietro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Pizzaballa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pizzaballa</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RomanCatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a>(Italy) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SistineChapel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SistineChapel</span></a>(VaticanCity) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VaticanCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VaticanCity</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Opinion | The Dinner That Helped Save Europe <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/960352/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/960352/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Brzezinski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brzezinski</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/carter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carter</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DiplomaticService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiplomaticService</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EmbassiesAndConsulates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmbassiesAndConsulates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Jimmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jimmy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnPaulII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnPaulII</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RomanCatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a>(Poland) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesInternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesInternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Zbigniew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zbigniew</span></a></p>
Cassandra<p>Proto-cardinals! Altars always made from stone! <br>Martyrdom! I am so annoyed at myself for not keeping up with this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> after covid hit. (I’m like three years behind Rex Factor, too. One major podcast catchup project at a time, though.)</p><p><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-u2n9a-93e5e1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">podbean.com/ew/pb-u2n9a-93e5e1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pontifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pontifacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
PKPs Powerfromspace1<p>@thetimes.com </p><p>"LIVE: 📺. Pope Francis' coffin transferred to St Peter's Basilica"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/funeral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funeral</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/j1E1LvzrHtQ?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/j1E1LvzrHtQ?f</span><span class="invisible">eature=shared</span></a></p>
Cassandra<p>Man, this brings me back. I was a listener from day one and followed the show religiously (ha!) up until sometime in 2020, when the pandemic kind of scrambled my brain and wiped out a lot of stuff I enjoyed. </p><p>I wonder how long it’ll take me to catch up. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pontifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pontifacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-z964n-93704d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">podbean.com/ew/pb-z964n-93704d</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/942953/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/942953/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ConservationOfResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConservationOfResources</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Francis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RomanCatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanCatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a></p>
Patrick Vanhoucke<p>Just about all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> who have died in the past century are buried in the crypt under St Peter's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Basilica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Basilica</span></a>. But <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Francis</span></a> informed that he wants to be buried in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a>. It is from 1903 that a pope will be buried outside the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vatican</span></a> walls.</p>
Daniel Dvorkin<p>On "real Christians."</p><p>This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.</p><p>===</p><p>Every time I hear <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the #<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>, my skin crawls.</p><p>Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/monarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monarchs</span></a> who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bishops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bishops</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/priests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>priests</span></a>—and note that I'm not just talking about <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>God</span></a> had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/blasphemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blasphemy</span></a>.</p><p>Neither were the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Crusaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crusaders</span></a>, the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Inquisitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inquisitors</span></a>, the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witch</span></a>-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/wars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wars</span></a> within <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christendom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christendom</span></a>, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.</p><p>Neither were the Christians who rounded up their <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/neopagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neopagan</span></a> cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/conquest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conquest</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a>, for centuries, and in many cases still do.</p><p>In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.</p><p>Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.</p><p>So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.</p><p>If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Muslims</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Hindus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hindus</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Wiccans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wiccans</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/atheists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atheists</span></a> and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.</p><p>And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.</p><p>If you don't? We'll be right back to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Torquemada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torquemada</span></a>, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.</p><p>Those are the only two options. Your choice.</p><p>===</p><p>Addendum:</p><p>I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.</p><p>Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.</p><p>We're all made of our <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a>, which is practically a religion in its own right.</p><p>Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:</p><p>Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.</p><p>This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.</p><p>You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.</p><p>But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.</p><p>Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?</p>
Bytes Europe<p>Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/824273/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/824273/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a>(TheoryAndPhilosophy) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cardinals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cardinals</span></a>(RomanCatholicPrelates) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Francis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ImmigrationAndEmigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationAndEmigration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a>(TheoryAndPhilosophy)</p>
Medievalists.net<p>This week on The Medieval Podcast: Rome and the Papacy with Jessica Wärnberg <a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/rome-and-the-papacy-with-jessica-warnberg/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medievalists.net/2024/02/rome-</span><span class="invisible">and-the-papacy-with-jessica-warnberg/</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a></p>
PseudoNovalis<p>MY MASTERPIECE #3<br>or <br>Pope in a Garbage Bag</p><p><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Pataphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pataphysics</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/ART" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ART</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Garbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garbage</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Bulldada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bulldada</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Hyperreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperreality</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Luxury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Luxury</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collage</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/DADA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DADA</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/AntiDADA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiDADA</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nihilism</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/TotalDisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TotalDisaster</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/POEE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POEE</span></a> <br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/FNORD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FNORD</span></a> ?<br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/NOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOP</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>So, What Does <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a> Actually <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Think" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Think</span></a> About <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/People" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>People</span></a>? </p><p>Pope Francis has established himself as one of the most boundary-pushing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> has ever had. Here are his <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/stances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stances</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/samesexmarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>samesexmarriage</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parents</span></a> and more. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spirituality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.them.us/story/so-what-does-pope-francis-actually-think-about-queer-and-trans-people" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">them.us/story/so-what-does-pop</span><span class="invisible">e-francis-actually-think-about-queer-and-trans-people</span></a></p>
Unprecedented 2023<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WindowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Murals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Murals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Palace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palace</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Popes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Avignon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avignon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> In 1906, the Palais des Papes became a national <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a>. <br>Since 1995, the Palais des Papes has been classified, along with the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/historic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historic</span></a> center of Avignon, as a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UNESCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNESCO</span></a> World Heritage Site. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TravelPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TravelPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> from 2012.</p>
sailoryf<p>@eamonn_kerins@astrodon.socialnteresting. <br>It works here when I added <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a>. No <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> would lead to misunderstanding randomly. I use a UK IP and Google installed in China.</p>
IT News<p>Why Pope Francis Is the Star of AI-Generated Photos - Francis has become a recurring favorite to show in incongruous situations, such as riding... - <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/technology/ai-photos-pope-francis.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/04/08/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/ai-photos-pope-francis.html</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computersandtheinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computersandtheinternet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/romancatholicchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romancatholicchurch</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/religionandbelief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religionandbelief</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/midjourneyinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>midjourneyinc</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/francis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>francis</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a></p>
Eamonn Kerins<p>Does <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/GoogleHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleHome</span></a> have some extra search filter (eg for religious hate speech etc)? I ask because we were having a family <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/discussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discussion</span></a> about how many <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> have been violently killed vs how many British <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/monarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monarchs</span></a>. Trying a Google Home voice search on "How many popes have been violently killed" (or similar) always fails but "How many monarchs..." always works. A text search on <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> of the same gives the right results. </p><p>Can someone else in the UK with Google Home test this out?</p>
Đ⟁🏳️<p>Remixes AI <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/puffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puffer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/batican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>batican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roma</span></a></p>