Pope Leo, Already Starting With The Catholic Fakery

That kid was going to be canonized no matter who was pope.

What a bunch of losers.

I just read up on him and I don’t get it. He didn’t do anything special. Seemed like a regular kid who was very into Catholicism.

His ‘miracles’ were that he cured a kid of pancreatic disease and a woman who had a brain hemorrhage after a bike accident healed after her mother visited Carlo’s tomb. Ooookay.

... and he was also able to properly fold a map on the first try.

He will be the official patron saint of cute twinks suffering from fatal illnesses.

Oh they're claiming he healed some kid from Brazil of a rare pancreatic condition after the kid came into contact with a piece of clothing worn by Acutis, and some other healings.

How sad he couldn't cure himself, said as I'm rolling my eyes dismissively.

Which makes it all the more saint-worthy, R4, because his generation doesn’t even KNOW what folded maps are. They literally had streets drawn on them!

The catholic church can modernize anything except accepting homosexuality and respecting women. Oh and not raping altar boys.

[quote] His ‘miracles’ were that he cured a kid of pancreatic disease and a woman who had a brain hemorrhage after a bike accident healed after her mother visited Carlo’s tomb.

Saints make people feel better. Who really cares if there were actual miracles? Plausible miracles are fine.

This whole "saint" thing with the Catholic Church is done for one ultimate reason, to keep the money flowing in from those stupid enough to continue to believe in their fraud. and the fraud of religion in general.

The Catholics don’t have anything on the evangelicals for sucking money out of the faithful.

“Jesus wants you to buy me a private jet and a Rolls Royce.”

[quote] Plausible miracles are fine.

Lol. If you think oxymorons are fine.

PLAUSIBLE: seeming reasonable or probable.

MIRACLE: a highly improbable or extraordinary event,

There really should be a hundred-year rule. No sainthood before a hundred years. Otherwise it becomes these little trophies for people who were beloved when they died, but little else.

Why do you care, OP?

We have republicans murdering democratic lawmakers in their homes and this is what you’re concerned about?

R16 believe it or not, there are an infinite list of issues confronting us at any one time we can be "concerned about". Are we allowed to only be concerned about the one issue you feel we should be concerned about?

You can imagine the transcript from this meeting.

"Young people's church attendance is down every year - what can we do to get young people more energized?"

"Ok - hear me out. What if we make a Millennial a Saint? One that built websites and used technology to spread the word of the Catholic Church? That will make them want to come to church AND they try to emulate him and will build more websites and re-tweet and re-post our messages all over social media for us! It's BOUND TO WORK!"

"NOW we're cooking with GAS! Woo-hoo! Sounds like a plan!!" As a bunch of 65+ closeted gay men in dresses high-five each other.

R15, they should have the same rule for naming things after politicians. That bridges, schools, airports, etc are almost always named after politicians is beyond offensive and ridiculous.

R19 - I agree. But it happens everywhere. Go to any British Commonwealth nation, the amount of times you see Victoria over and over and over and over is nauseating.

I ruled longer than this fat, disinterested depressed bitch.

Well there’s not much point to being a Christian, Jew or Muslim if you don’t believe in the possibility of miracles.

It’s kind of silly to criticize religion from the point of view of a scientist.

I think putting that teen's body on display with the creepy wax mask is very distasteful.

I had no idea that the qualifying miracles could be things that happened after the potential saint was dead. I thought it was more along the lines of someone jumping up from a wheelchair after being touched by the future saint. What if a sick kid’s mom prays to multiple potential saints, who gets credit? I didn’t even know that people prayed to dead people they heard about on the internet, although I was vaguely aware that people prayed to saints. I grew up nominally Catholic and remember that there was one guy you could pray to if you lost something.

I want to be open minded and respectful, but I’m having hard time.

The Catholic church is so morally bankrupt, the whole thing makes me nauseous.

- Prolapsed Catholic

Millennials are 40, r18.

R25 - well they had to wait at least a few years. They're not going to make a Gen Z a saint overnight. Besides, logic has never existed with the Catholic Church.

R21 there's a HUGE difference in a religion's mythology and text-based miracles versus coming up with new ones in 2025 and promoting a recent teenager's death and online lifework as a miracle.

I don't see Judaism or Islam coming up with new miracles or revered people to add to the canon.

Besides, Catholic saints is just the Catholic Church's way of having lesser Gods to appeal to polytheistic cultures. It's like Santa's little helpers. It's just weird.

The whole job of the Pope is to do Catholic bullshit, wear fancy costumes and futz about the Vatican. Why is OP surprised?

Pope Insufferable.

And this one is going to be there for another 20 years, and go way right.

But the canonization already was on the schedule before his papalization.

[quote] there's a HUGE difference in a religion's mythology and text-based miracles versus coming up with new ones in 2025

What the huge difference?

[quote]I thought it was more along the lines of someone jumping up from a wheelchair after being touched by the future saint

That's hilarious. No, honey, it's always something after they died where someone prayed to the saint and then "a miracle" happened, usually something easily explained by science. It's often something trumped up like someone "miraculously cured of cancer" after praying to the proto-saint -- except they leave out the chemo and radiation therapy or whatever standard treatment that occurred at the same time. The cancer didn't "respond to treatment," it was "cured" by praying to the saint. No one is going around curing cancer or making crippled people walk, it's all hokum and always was.

Something “easily explained by science” would never be considered a miracle.

Saints can cure cancer but can't prevent the rape of children for hundreds of years.

It would have been in the 1300s!

The majority of "miracles" that so-called saints performed are more likely the result of illiteracy, ignorance, and lack of medical care.

I mean, 100 years ago, performing CPR on someone, including mouth to mouth after drowning, would have been deemed a miracle.

Think what silliness would have been miraculous 500 years ago.

either it was a miracle or YOU'RE A WITCH!

He also qualifies for sainthood because, at a mere 15 years of age, and being a "good boy," he was a virgin. He never even indulged in the sin of onanism. Not once. And, miraculously, he never had a nocturnal emission!

Pope Leo isn't "already" starting with the Catholic fakery. He started it the moment he said his first Mass.

[quote]there was one guy you could pray to if you lost something.

St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around. Something is lost and needs to be found.

[quote]The whole job of the Pope is to do Catholic bullshit, wear fancy costumes and futz about the Vatican. Why is OP surprised?

Go easy on OP, he's still in shock at learning that the pope is in fact Catholic.