The controversial woke Pope has passed.
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at his residence after an extended illness, the Vatican has announced. He was 88. Francis ascended to the Papacy on March 13, 2013, after the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained a priest in the Jesuit order in 1969 and served as the head of that order in Argentina until he was made archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998. He was the first Pope elected from outside of Europe since Gregory III in the eighth century and the first ever Jesuit Pope.
Pope Francis should have been a liberal’s dream. He was the Climate Pope, the LGBT Pope (He later came out against trans surgery and gender ideology), he was pro communist or at least socialist, supported other people’s open borders, not shy about his globalism, and was very much into collective salvation. It earned him a lot of nicknames, not something you typically find with the papacy, but Woke Pope covers most, if not all, of them adequately enough.
And most Libs still didn’t like him. And why would they. Acting like one of them is useful, but in the end, he represented something they saw as a threat to their schemes. A power greater than themselves. He was many things, but he wasn’t godless.
There will be feelings of loss and opportunity. While the Catholic Church as a body is predisposed to respect the office, many were uncomfortable with the leadership. Francis ignored doctrine in pursuit of … I can only assume – recruitment. Catholics have been losing ground to Muslims, and not just because the latter kill Christians in many countries – a practice the woke left imagines is what the Catholics, Christians, and Jews are all about.
They need to read some history. Islam may have executed more infidels than all the Communist leaders combined, and they are easily outpacing them in the modern era across Africa.
As for the next Pope, I am curious to see which direction the College of Cardinals thinks we should take. After more than a decade of woke popeism, do they see the need to reel that back in and go with someone a bit more doctrinal, or try for more middle ground?
I guess the question they need to ask is, what would Jesus do?
Note: I was raised Catholic, spent many years as part of a Southern Baptist Church, have an uncle who was an Episcopal Bishop, and my best friend is a Baptist pastor. That doesn’t mean I know a damn thing about anything but Catholicism is a bit like the CIA. Once you’re in, you’re in until they kick you out, and they have not kicked me out yet.
