Born to freak, forced to wait until froken to 😭

Operator couture is a virus infecting the world. Soon law enforcement will be wearing it enforcing civil violations...oh wait

Fuck. It's such an ugly and awful way to go, even if they lived full lives they deserved much better than this.

"Look, we may have cut the incident rate of the disease by 80% in the last 30 years since we instituted a vaccine, but can we exhaustively prove that the vaccine contributed? Plus the vaccine may have side effects, it's too early to start using it!"

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To sum up a whole quagmire as quickly as I can: there's a whole Thing about people believing every pope since Vatican II has been illegitimate, but also many of the loudest American Heresy bishops made many insinuations about both Bendict's retirement and Francis's election--

* He has a strong familiarity with the attitudes and issues that are common among leadership in the US Catholic Church, but spent an equal amount of his ministerial career in Peru, where the Church is much less afflicted by the US Heresy.

Things to remember:

* Leo absolutely knows both everything I just said and a billion things more.
* He holds a doctorate in canon law, aka the history, theology, philosophy, and practical application of Church law and teachings.
* He was born in 1955 and watched a lot of this ^^ in real time.

(There is ANOTHER digression here about how Francis was a Jesuit and this is a very Jesuit attitude, but I'm fading fast, Cap'n, I dinnae know if she can make it to the part of the thread where I actually explain the thing I started it to explain lolsob. Very short stretch break, then I'll be back.)

In the balance of faith and works, Francis's version of Catholicism was tilted far to the direction of works: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, make peace for the war-afflicted. ("Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God".) Not just faith, but faith made manifest through works.

And Francis's response, basically, was that while the catechism of the Church is important and people should follow it because that's what it means to be Catholic, we're all imperfect beings and none of us is free from sin, and also these things you're concerned about are WAY down the priority list.