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Monday, April 21, 2025

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

Posted by TFDNihilist at 09:58 AM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

BREAKING: Pope Francis has died, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo announced.[image or embed]
" The Associated Press (@apnews.com) April 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM

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He seemed to do much better than some of his predecessors in a tough job within an impossible organization. RIP.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-21 05:15 AM

#1: Hi Doc, true what you wrote. Francis was the first Jesuit to ever sit in the Chair of St. Peter and the Jesuits oppose Opus Dei. How will Trumpf and papally-snubbed snubbed JD Vance react? Will US flags be flown at half-mast? Too bad Trumpf's birthday is in June. The Sacred College of Cardinals would have selected the new pope before 14 June. This is the novel to read or film to watch, especially because of the Ukraine war and papal selection: i.gr-assets.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-21 05:31 AM

Weird that he died right after a visit from JD Vance.

#3 | Posted by cbob at 2025-04-21 06:07 AM

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement, which was read out by Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, from the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta, where Francis lived.

"At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church, Ferrell said.

Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14, 2025, for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.

#4 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-04-21 06:25 AM

#3: And Joe Biden wanted to see Francis one last time in January, but the California fires precluded that. I hope JD Vance doesn't have the Dalai Lama on his itinerary: www.dalailama.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-21 06:26 AM

If I was younger, maybe we'd make a Netflix pitch?

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-21 06:36 AM

Pope Francis: "If I See the Gospel in a Sociological Way Only, Yes, I Am a Communist, and So Too Is Jesus."

www.tfp.org

#7 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-21 08:36 AM

Rest in Peace Pontiff.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-21 08:37 AM

#6: And last year Father Gustavo Gutirrez died: www.bbc.com

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-21 08:45 AM

"The communists stole some of our Christian values. Some others, they made a disaster out of them."

From the same interview he gave in 2022 that's the source of tne quote at #6. He was a Jesuit and he could be both simplistic and complex. Interesting interview: www.americamagazine.org

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-21 09:05 AM

I heard JD Vance killed him.

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-04-21 09:31 AM

I've had many issues with the Catholic Church over the years but this Pope wasn't one of them. Francis was an influential critic of Israel's mass atrocities in Gaza. He repeatedly called for investigations into genocide allegations and routinely denounced the bombing of hospitals and the murder of humanitarian workers and civilians.
He was an advocate for moral clarity and a huge PR problem for Israel, a supremacist regime founded on violence lies and deceit.

One can only hope that another fearless and compassionate human being such as Francis will be announced as the next leader of the Catholic Church.

#12 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-04-21 10:03 AM

Let's just hope it isn't Dolan. I'm fairly sure the Europeans won't ever elect and American but he would be an absolute disaster.

#13 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-21 10:10 AM

WASHINGTON: Arguing that "it's the smartest way to go," Donald J. Trump urged the Vatican on Monday to select the next pope from the cast of "Fox & Friends."

"You want to have a pope who's good on TV," Trump said. "The Fox & Friends' people are the best TV people in the business."

Trump seemed to disqualify co-host Ainsley Earhardt, commenting, "I don't know if you can have a girl pope. No knock on Ainsley, but I don't think people are ready for that."

Alternatively, he added, "Maybe go with Doocy--he looks like he's never had sex."

(The Borowitz Report)

#14 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-21 10:16 AM

And now back to the regularly-scheduled pedo-supporting cat-lick church.

#15 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-04-21 10:37 AM

I heard JD Vance killed him.
#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Just wanted to avoid any awkwardness when Trump claimed the position.

#16 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-21 12:35 PM

It happened to be a Jesuit Priest who interviewed me as was required for a non-Catholic about to marry a Catholic girl. This was in his office at their University at Santa Clara.

He was basically the Irish priest straight out of the old John Wayne movie about the American boxer who moves to Ireland... a cane. a dog, books crowding every shelf.

I was a young suit working there in the Valley, a little coked up, and he pegged me right away.

His first words to me as he leaned forward across his desk were, "The World is trying to do THIS to you"... and he shot me The Finger!

Of the top few candidates to become Pope now, one is already a Trump loyalist, and another is persuadable. Which fits the long held AC narrative that the character of the False Prophet who supports the AC is... a Pope

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-21 12:40 PM

I suspect the church's experiment with a pope who actually follows Christ's teachings will end here.

I won't be surprised one bit when a fire and brimstone righty cardinal from Europe gets the nod.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-21 12:53 PM

RIP to a compassionate man who followed the actual teachings of Christ to help the poor and downtrodden per the Beatitudes and Matthew 25:31-47

#19 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-21 01:28 PM

"As many of us have heard by now, today the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis at 88 years of age. And as a sign of the times, the Vatican released the news on X.

The legacy of Pope Francis is unquestionably that he pushed the Catholic Church to the left in many ways, which did satisfy many Catholics seeking to modernize the church, but also angered traditionalists."

www.youtube.com

3 mins from AC45

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-21 01:34 PM

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