Steve HermanMay 25
Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical denouncing the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News

Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human ...

Show threadjamoMay 25

@newsguyusa from a man in a golden castle immune from international law sheltering criminals at scale with pockets so deep they predate all other banking systems with wealth so vast it can't even be guessed at.

It's like getting positivity memes from the Sith.

Leo should focus on the hellscape of human suffering he oversees and stfu about everyone else's business.

Show thread砂漠人  x 🏜️May 25
@jamoquanty @newsguyusa Hard disagree. At least he's doing something. Along with calling out the warmongers in the USA.
Show threadjamoMay 25

@sleepytako @newsguyusa

He's not doing anything useful afaict, dude just loves pointing the finger at others to distract as he pushes ridiculous levels of homophobia, transphobia and sex abuse as he's drunk with power and corruption.

It's pathetic, he revels in tarring others whilst overseeing a system that makes Epstien look like an amatuer.

Show thread砂漠人  x 🏜️May 25
@jamoquanty @newsguyusa I'm a realist when it comes to people in positions like this. The current pope is hella better than Ratizzinger (SP) and has made concessions towards many communities which have been attacked by the Catholic church in the past. And in my many years of interfaith dialogue on the grown Catholics are hella more chill than the born again mega-church nutters. Praise Bob!
Show threadViolet MadderMay 25

@sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

At least THIS hyena playing tug of war with our entrails occasionally brushes his teeth. Yay.

Call me when he steps up for global availability of proper, free reproductive healthcare (that damned well includes contraceptives and abortions), rounds up the thousands of child abusing clergy, and gets the church to PAY REPARATIONS to the communities they've enslaved and waged genocide against (which damned well includes trans people). Oh, and maybe confront the culture of abuse that stems from conflating love with fear, suffering with virtue, sex with filth, and women with evil.

Till then, the current figurehead of one of the most destructive institutions on the planet can fuck right off with his insultingly small, performative mercies.

Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenMay 25

@violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

Agreed on the destructive nature of the Catholic Church. I continue to question how any self-described progressives can stay with such an oppressive institution.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/progressive-catholics-please-explain-yourselves-1ec9adc4fc67?sk=cdaa9645e434596425093f277467546d

Progressive Catholics, Please Explain Yourselves

I genuinely want to understand why you stay with an oppressive institution.

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Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 25
@funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa why is it opressive?
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenMay 25

@jarinks @violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

As I explained in my article, the Catholic church openly opposes gender transition, same-sex marriage, abortion, and the ordination of women.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26
@funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa none of those are oppressive, at all. There are MULTIPLE monastic religious orders for women in the church, if they want to become nuns. Its just that they cannot be ordained priests
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenMay 26

@jarinks @violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

Being treated as a second-class citizen, whether inside or outside the church, is oppressive by definition.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉
@funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa you are not treated as a second class citizen, you just cannot be ordained
May 26 at 10:21pmWeb
Show threadViolet MadderMay 26

@jarinks @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

You've got to be joking.

We're talking about a religion whose premise is based on a Big Sky Daddy who claims he hurts you because He loves you, demands total subservience, and threatens you with endless hellfire if you misbehave because you're a filthy filthy sin-ridden human being who can't be trusted to think for yourself.

You don't see anything potentially oppressive in the legacy of TWO THOUSAND YEARS of genocide, torture, slavery, rape, child abuse, bigotry, and misogyny?

The Catholic Church doesn't want to let anybody even get BASIC REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE, for crying out loud.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26

@violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

1. hell isnt an eternal fire, its the abyss
2. none of us can follow Gods glorious standard, thats why Christ let himself be crucified, for our sins

Show threadViolet MadderMay 26

@jarinks @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa

Just listen to yourself. WTF.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26
@violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa people when theology
Show threadjamoMay 26

@jarinks @violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @newsguyusa

1. Hell is silly
2. Jesus of Nazareth on a cross in the 30's? I don't think that happened, and feel I'm in rather good company there.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 27
@jamoquanty @violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @newsguyusa
1. no its not
2. huh? literally ask any historian
Show threadjamo4d ago

@jarinks @violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @newsguyusa

From the second century, as far back as we can go to the modern day people are still arguing if the annointed one was flesh, was on the cross, suffered, where it came from, where it went and what the narratives mean.

I'd be very wary of anyone clinging to memes like first century gospels or 'authentic' letters of St Saul in the Catholic canon, or anyone chanting 'most scholars agree'.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26
@violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa
3. define "basic reproductive healthcare" and cite your sources
Show threadjamoMay 26

@jarinks @violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @newsguyusa

Spreading the lie that condoms cause AIDS perhaps an example.

I helped fund the system with mum long ago. SCIAF was the one here and now we have a new gen of African clergy to help make up the deficit, far east too.

They are declining in the west so they seek out poor nations where the propaganda is more effective, it's grim to watch.

Mum watches this video almost as regular as she goes to mass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRcYaAYWg4

The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World - Full Version

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Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 27

@jamoquanty @violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @newsguyusa
"condoms cause aids" are three words ive never heard in the church.

and when church does international charity 😤
when the church doesnt do international charity 😤

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26
@violetmadder @funcrunch @sleepytako @jamoquanty @newsguyusa "big sky daddy" and this entire reply is just a giant strawman
Show threadjamoMay 26

@jarinks @funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @newsguyusa

It's about power and control.

In my reading the last woman to really hold power and sway in the system was Hildegarde Von Bingen, her letters are a masterclass in cutting through male dominant corruption.

So then we got Aquinas & Pope John and close on 1000yrs of absolute and total corruption, with the system adjusted to ensure any future Hilde's would be raped and burnt until the idea of a woman with power was just gone.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 26

@jamoquanty @funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @newsguyusa

when has the church burnt or raped a woman for wanting equal rights?

Show threadjamoMay 26

@jarinks @funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @newsguyusa

Malleus Malificarum as an intro text, it's made of Aquinas who made the declaration that malificurum should be punished by the state and was taken up gleefully by Pope John who canonized his horrific doctrines of almost incomprehensible idiocy.

Consider since the time of Aquinas to the present day how many people without penises have held real power in the system.

The movie Conclave is a nice mediation upon Canon Law One of Nicea.

Show threaduname -a 🇻🇦🍉May 27
@jamoquanty @funcrunch @violetmadder @sleepytako @newsguyusa