I guess it’s time to read about Liberation Theology.
Isn’t that just an other word for woke?
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Do people still care about this stuff? And to be fair the new Pope doesn’t look black.
Yes!
There’s a theologian from Perú (Gustavo Gutiérrez) that published a book in 1971 titled Teología de la liberación: Perspectivas originally in Spanish, titled A Theology of Liberation in the translation to English.
Current pope was a 16 YO boy at the time, and by looking at his career, it seems he drank the kool-aid jar entirely.
Liberation theology means establishing the relationship between the emancipation of man—socially, politically, and economically—and the kingdom of God.
Certainly, it’s not like the pope during WW2 that no one wants to remember and it’s rarely mentioned: Pius XII. The guy would have gone straight to sainthood by condemning Fascism, Nazism and many other -isms, but chose to stay quiet.
Of course, I don’t expect any revolutionary leadership coming out of the Vatican. But, it seems the election of this pope is throwing a spanner in the works. In contemporary terms, it’s mild trolling.
Well, that’s quite an endorsement for this article JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others
The Wiki also points to the protestant theologian Karl Barth, AKA the Red Pastor of Safenwil.
Wait a min…does someone earned the epitet of Red Pastor of Safenwil? oh shit, I have to work but this is extremely interesting, Aargau a century ago:
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I certainly don’t but this is the US we are talking about. Jim Crow still lives there.
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Exactly, it’s the USA and everyone comes from “somewhere” (apart from native Americans, obvs.). Even the Maga whack-jobs.
I hope he won’t send his freshly released hoodlums to the Vatican. The Papal Swiss guard is not dressed properly for a fight.
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Even they came from somewhere - it’s pretty much certain that they came from Siberia across what is now the Bering Strait.
They keep saying he is the first “American” pope? What about his predecessor? He was American too.
I hope the new Pope continues to keep in contact with the sole Catholic Church in Gaza, as Pope Francis did with his nightly calls.
The people of Gaza feel like the world has abandoned them to their fate of genocide and ethnic cleansing, so for one of the most powerful people on earth to speak with them daily was a profound statement indeed.
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Difference being South and North.
OK, He’s the first North American but not the first American. Or if you prefer the first from the USA.
First Murrican. Everyone in the world understands this.
It is now being reported that At the turn of the 20th century, the pope’s maternal grandparents, Louise Baquie and Joseph Martinez, were living in New Orleans and listed as Black in the 1900 Census, with Martinez’s place of birth listed as “Hayti” and his occupation as “cigar maker,” according to census records. They lived in New Orleans’s 7th Ward, then the heartbeat of the city’s Creole community.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/09/pope-leo-creole-ancestors-prevost/
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Well, he isn’t the first Black Pope.
There were three popes of North African descent in the early centuries of the Catholic Church, who very possibly were Black:
• Pope Victor I (reigned 189-199 AD), likely born in Roman Africa (modern Libya or Tunisia)
• Pope Miltiades (311-314 AD), born in Africa
• Pope Gelasius I (492-496 AD), born in Rome but of African descent (from what is now Algeria)
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And let’s not forget pope Joan. (Alleged 855-857) the only trace the woman-fearing Catholics left of her possible existence ist the testicular chair that every pope had to sit on and have some poor bugger check that this guy has a pair of goolies and not a taco before taking office.
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She is a fictional legend, modern scholars have ruled her existence out.
Being disputed these days, increasingly thought they came by boat
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