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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Sucks that he died, but got me thinking. How is the Pope any different from a Dictator? He’s literally one person at the top who has the authority to decide how an entire group of people should think and act and believes he has divine authority to do so?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

In his position as pope he has no state power, only spiritual, and in his position as monarch of the Vatican, well there's only church employees living there and Italy has an eye on things. Generally speaking unless otherwise stated Italian law applies within the Vatican.

Also he's elected. Not that that means much it means that he's a mouthpiece of the oligarchs (cardinals) electing him. But while we're at elected monarchs, there's one rather curious case: The French president is co-prince of Andorra, that is, their head of state, he shares that position with the local Bishop. Nearly 800 years ago the Andorrans said "yeah let's not get invaded" and gave the title to the French head of state, then revolution happened, now the French are electing the Andorran head of state.

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[–] gressen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did he finally learn who invaded Ukraine, or was he blissfully unaware until his last moments?

Edit: adding /s just in case

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 0 points 1 week ago
[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are no coincidences in politicas, and the fact that he died immediately after meeting with Vance is highly suspicious. Vance killed him, or someone in his entourage did.

HitlerPig will now demand the Vatican choose his hand-picked candidate, some conservative troll from Wisconsin. Mark my words, soon HitlerPig will be threatening the Catholic Church with removing their tax-exemot status if they don't install his choice.

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