Blank Frank - is there ANYTHING he doesn't know?!

[mr blur]

This startling piece of insight might sit a little better if he wasn't the head of his own state and live in a palace full of priceless books and artworks.

What will he come out with next - rain is wet? Bears shit in the woods?

Queue here to say what a wonderful, caring, liberal, humble genius the man is...

[marym625]

1. Obviously, he doesn't believe this

Since people are still, very much, discriminated against in the Catholic Church.

Hypocrite.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Captain Obvious.

This is not earth-shattering. This is not insightful.

I am glad that he said it, but everything he is saying is just platitudes. I will be impressed when I see any results.

[PeaceNikki]

3. my lady parts and compassion for my LGBT friends say, "oh, fuck you, Frank!!"

[AlbertCat]

4. Bears shit in the woods?

"Does the Pope wear a funny hat?"


Or my fave (because it's SO TACKY it's transcendent..... so don't have a hissy fit)

"Did Rose Kennedy own a black dress?"

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Can you prove that bears don't shit on the top of the heads of atheists?

I don't think you can. I think it is possible that bears shit on the top of the heads of atheists. While it is much more likely that bears shit in the woods by several orders of magnitude than that bears shit on the top of heads of atheists, both positions are equally valid.

[bvf]

5. Pope Smart.

Meanwhile, gays still go to hell, women aren't in charge of their own bodies, and STDs--well, they must be god's will.

Fuck him.

[Rob H.]

6. At least he recognizes it

Too bad he doesn't do anything to stop it within his own church, though.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Reminds me of the iceberg meme:

Funny how he threw that "zero tolerance" policy out the window and rewarded another pedophile protector.

But the I Love This Pope brigade just gushes over the guy because ...free haircuts.

I read in the other place that Teh Pope is a Christian!

[LiberalAndProud]

9. It concerns me more that this is seen by so many as a radical departure from earlier teachings.

It shook American conservatives up, so I'll give him props.

[Goblinmonger]

10. I fixed the picture

[trotsky]

12. Perfect!

Drives home the point that if anyone else says that, it's greeted with a shrug. But Wonderpope says it, ZOMG, he's the most wonderful person ever in the history of humanity! This totally means we should ignore what a raging homophobic misogynist he is!

[mountain grammy]

11. well, yeah. must be get more smarter week.

[Arugula Latte]

13. I'm glad to hear women and "out" gays will now have equal standing in the RCC!

When will they start ordaining them, I wonder? Will we see a woman pope soon?

[beam me up scottie]

17. Hey, they let women scrub the Vatican's toilets, don't they?

You people and your ridiculous demands! You can't expect this pope to change things overnight.

[Arugula Latte]

18. That's true. And the nuns get to be married to Jesus, so they've got that going for them.

[Act_of_Reparation]

14. Fucking profound.

We got a real deep thinker in this one. Obviously, he read the Communist Manifesto in high school, too.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. The RCC's value is beyond estimation or accounting. This is just the city of Sydney.

[PeaceNikki]

16. As a born and bred resident of the metro Milwaukee area, this issue makes me fucking FUME with anger

I've had a ton of exposure to the sins of the church in context of St John's School for the Deaf and that rat bastard Timothy Dolan.