Even fathers get 8 weeks nowadays in my country.

Underestimating your enemy is often a fatal mistake

Yet shitty news site. I even clicked “allow the cookies” and I still couldn’t read the article because of some other pop up demanding my email adres.

Francis allowed gay marriage and gay priests. He opened the church to criminal investigations when there were allegations of fraud. He got vaccinated against covid and encouraged everyone to do the same. He encouraged people to take climate change serious. He was very connected with poor people and immigrants, didn’t live in a palace.

He wasn’t perfect, but better than his predecessors. He still denied transgender people and was not very proactive on allowing gay marriage. He spoke against sexual abuse in the church, but effectively did not do much about it. He claimed a zero tolerance, but did not practice it. He was very outspoken against abortion.

All in all he put the church on a more progressive and modern path and that’s a good thing. I also think the church is bullshit, but they influence a whole lot of people, so it’s good if they follow a less evil path. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

Its a good pope. He will likely be continuing the progressive course of the old pope

This is the kind of art I would pay for if I was rich

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