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The Pope has an excellent PR team where he gets to be quoted, almost out of context, and often in casual and unofficial conversations with the press, gaffes if you will. And then his bishops and cardinals go “acktually, it’s still a sin to be a removed”.

If you are interested in Catholicism as an avenue or source of radicalism: a) you are putting the cart before the horse; Catholic/Christians radicals are radicals first and Christians second. b) Religion, despite theologians and their protestations is also affected by historical and material conditions, so it’s really funny when you read an encyclical from the late 1890s where the communists are a radical and malevolent threat, and then you read an encyclical in 1991 where they are like “uwu capitalism, please stop being mwean to workers”.

Appreciate that the pendulum is swinging leftward but do not expect any changes that are not directly caused by our own work and demands, although watered down.

I dunno if I’ve said this here: but spirituality, god, or gods should not be ceded to right wingers. It is a component of the human experience and we need to wrestle with Communism and its exchange with religion.