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[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk 3 points 5 hours ago

Francis beatified Junipero Serra (among others), so that's a huge minus in my book. But I guess the bar is in the toilet.

Also, don't anyone else feel statements like these are hugely hypocritical? The catholic church has benefited from the waging of war against non-christians for most of it's history to the point previous churchmen has created entire theologies of justified war. Now when they lead a great population of followers they can pretend to be peace loving hippies.

Remember, the last time a people had catholicism forced on them as the consequence of war was when Chile conquered the Mapuche in 1883 and placed them in reservations and worked to convert them.