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Legitimately, what keeps Pope Francis from saying some really gay shit "ex cathedra"?
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@nugger
But lets say tomorrow the Pope makes a speech and is like "Uhhh my fellow Catholics, priests can be women now, we will marry gay people, and uhhhh God is a woman, and btw this is ex cathedra."
There aren't any legal mechanisms I know of by which he could be removed. obviously it wouldn't go over well. But he *could* do it.
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@Vril_Oreilly @nugger
The Holy Spirit is supposed to protect against that, but if he does it anyways then that means we're in the End Times with an Antipope and the True Church is being forced underground and whatnot.
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@Vril_Oreilly SAME THING THAT KEEPS JEWS SPINNING UP MASS MEDIA PROPAGANDA WHEN THEY ALREADY CONTROL ALL OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF POWER AND CAN JUST DO SHIT WITHOUT REGARD FOR PUBLIC OPINION
ITS THE GENERAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE BROADER AUDIENCE OF CATHOLICS, WHICH GETS FILTERED UP INTO VATICAN TO PEOPLE WHO CAN REMOVE HIM
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@Vril_Oreilly ultimately, the Holy Spirit, but even from a worldly perspective trying such a thing would draw too clear of a line in the sand. Ambiguity is better for him and people like him.
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I think a big advantage of low church Protestantism is if pastor so-and-so is on his WEF shit in the next town over, you're still protected from it. You never risk having a Pope Francis or Justin Welby in charge as long as the church body doesn't permit it.
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@Vril_Oreilly
On the other hand Protestantism constantly splintering and many of those splinters turning out to be aggressively gay also damages Christianity. There's advantages and disadvantages to both sides.