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[moggio]

Catholicism is the fakest of news.

 

[Disagree Guy]

And now the wait for the inevitable 'scandal' involving just this type of thing in the Catholic Church.

 

[KingV]

But that's probably not a sin as long as you cream pie.

 

[FZZ]

The pope into watersports confirmed

real af

 

[Monocle]

Anyone who can bring themselves to eat poop must be an extremely motivated individual. Who are we to stop people from gobbling succulent turds? They'd just go to waste in the sewer anyway.

It's like when you go to a coffee shop five minutes before closing and they're about to throw away all their scones, so they let you take your pick. Except instead of scones on a shelf it's turds from someone's butt. But otherwise it's exactly the same.

 

[Übermatik]

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Sometimes I can't help but focus on negative news like the true stories about how Jesuits like this Pope sent home unnecessarily gruesome reports about native tribes in America. Mainly to justify forced conversion to Christianity. What is the old Catholic and Jesuit playbook on this subject compared to their holier than thou facade?

 

[Grym]

Someone needs to reset the timeline

 

[HazySaiyan]

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

 

[sirap]

Explains why scat is so popular.

 

[BudokaiMR2]

Someone needs to reset the timeline

Barry is the hero we need AND deserve.

 

[Nikodemos]

Someone needs to reset the timeline

Seriously. It's like Achron, where all your troops are dead and your base is on fire in the "10 minutes later" bubble and you scramble as hard as you can to fix that in the now.

 

[Hamster Plugin]

What a terrible statement. The Trump propaganda accounts are already going "he's talking about you, CNN and other MSM!!!"

 

[DualReaver]

Is this one of those lost in translation things?

Like, could this just be some common metaphor used in in argentina spanish or w/e?

Sometimes I can't help but focus on negative news like the true stories about how Jesuits like this Pope sent home unnecessarily gruesome reports about native tribes in America. Mainly to justify forced conversion to Christianity. What is the old Catholic and Jesuit playbook on this subject compared to their holier than thou facade?

Huh?

 

[Amir0x]

It's British English vs American English. Kinda like Paedo- and Pedo-.

Haha i know you are right but that was the first word you used to illustrate the difference? Lol

 

[DualReaver]

Snip. Accidental second post.

 

[maquiladora]

holy shit

 

[zeemumu]

Is there another source on this?
Or does anyone know about independent.ie ?

I googled it and other well-known sources are reporting on it as well, so it's either a group effort to teach us a lesson about fake news, which seems counterproductive if everyone reports it, or it's legit.

 

[Jarmel]

Do you eat shit?

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Huh?

In the colonial era Catholic missionaries made up very dark stories about savage natives to influence European policy. The current pope is from this school of missionary training.

 

[Chumpion]

Does the Pope eat shit in the woods?

 

[Extra Sauce]

'Eat da poo poo".

Alternate caption:

"Hail Hydra"

 

[Bolivar687]

Is this one of those lost in translation things?

Like, could this just be some common metaphor used in in argentina spanish or w/e?

From what I've read, he's evoking the metaphor we commonly use in English as well, that someone's rhetoric is full of shit, although obviously the Pope is going to use more sophisticated vocabulary. He's talking about how it's fun to write and read overly negative articles but that they often obscure the truth or different perspectives. In doing this, the media is talking shit, spreading shit, and subsequently what we're reading is garbage.

Of course coprophilia has a sexual connotation to it but this is the only article I've read insinuating that the Pope is explicitly invoking sexual imagery.

In the colonial era Catholic missionaries made up very dark stories about savage natives to influence European policy. The current pope is from this school of missionary training.

Much like the Catholic Church is too enormous and diverse for monolithic generalizations, so too are multinational orders like the Jesuits. The Jesuits in the colonial era were renowned for spreading Christianity without the use of force, for living among the natives, learning their languages and preserving their cultures. They helped eradicate the Spanish forced labor system in the New World and at times were the only advocates for the indigenous. This caused them to often come under attack by the European settlers or to be forcibly expelled by the monarchs. In China, they helped spread scientific knowledge at a time when it had declined and are credited with initiating a scientific revolution there. Their humanitarian and scientific legacy continues today, as they currently run more Universities around the globe than any other organization and have economic empowerment programs in every corner of the world.

I've never heard of the specific incident you're referring to but I hope you recognize how unreasonable it is to attribute that to the entire Jesuits order, the priesthood generally, or to Pope Francis hundreds of years later.

 

[Undefined]

i click anything that says sex and feces.

 

[highrider]

No other analogy eh Pope? Geez..

 

[cdyhybrid]

He ain't wrong.

 

[Lautaro]

That's... oddly specific.

 

[Hermii]

perfect

 

[Akuun]

He could have just said that writing fake news is like producing shit, but he had to be oddly specific and make it all weird.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Catholicism is the fakest of news.

"They said it was Good news not Fake."

- Lionel Hutz - defence lawyer

 

[Closer Two]

Why would the pope kink shame like that? I thought he was the cool pope.

 

[Salbug]

Well, this certainly wasn't something I ever expected to hear the pope of all people to say...

 

[Reeks]

Pope kinkshaming.

I just lol'd.

 

[Brakke]

Paging Chumly.

Worst analogy of 2016?

I told you the competition was fierce this year.