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Data 18 points ago +18 / -0

Worst pope ever.

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deathbymonty 19 points ago +19 / -0

As a Catholic historian, there is some HEAVY competition for title of worst pope. Francis really isn’t in the top 10.

Since he’s a total communist shill and presides over massive corruption within the Vatican, as well as institutionalizing pedophile protection, it shows you how bad our Church has had it over 2,000 years.

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deathbymonty 4 points ago +4 / -0

I personally hate the Popes who caused the Protestant Reformation and oversaw the Church’s failure to respond to Martin Luther appropriately — 2 of the last 3 Popes detailed in “The Bad Popes” are certainly in hell because of it.

Their failure left us with a completely splintered and constantly infighting visible body of Christ. Without that splintering, abortion probably would not ever had been made legal in the US (and then the world, which the US/UN pushed as part of their “women’s rights worldwide” movement).

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BubbaSmalls 2 points ago +2 / -0

From an ecclesiastical and theological point of view, Paul VI is much worse. He basically oversaw the dismantling of traditional Catholicism. Rather than get closer to the Orthodox, which would have been nice, he converted the church into a slightly more conservative and legalistic form of Anglicanism.

Francis is like Paul VI’s lame sequel.

From a moral point of view, any of the Renaissance popes are far worse than Frankie, but at least they had good taste.