I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward - ThreadSky

josie.zone • 14 hours ago

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition

But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

Reposted from CMF

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

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themancdandy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I don’t think I have to hand anything to him. He was no progressive.

vagabondaeon.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I still maintain that those words were his but God helped the pen move, if you know what I mean

jemezstargazer.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Having to be civil to Vance prior to that speech is probably what killed him. I hope those words haunt Vance.

countdeathtoll.bsky.social•12 hours ago

That goes fucking hard.

gfrancie.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Best of the Jesuit talk.

ubik12.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Based.

robustflossmore.bsky.social•13 hours ago

https://ohhisteve.substack.com/p/todays-news-and-comment

tcarmody.bsky.social•8 hours ago

To steal a phrase, it’s a real Ponteflex

extraface.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It’s pope bars

msmollympls.bsky.social•6 hours ago

megaweapon5.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Weren’t there rumors of Musk converting to Catholicism? I feel like this is a direct response to his lunacy about how the problem with modern civilization is too much empathy.

tamslick.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You'd think that someone aspiring to edgelordery as much as Elon does would leapfrog Catholicism and go straight to the OrthoBro endgame.

feraldeer.bsky.social•8 hours ago

josie youre my favorite person to get any religious insights from ever genuinely

falschspieler.com•7 hours ago

There are stories about a female pope named Joan, but it's unclear whether they're based on fact or legend. It would have been cool if La Papesse would have turned out to be real, though.

tnbluedot.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Memorable last public words

groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social•14 hours ago

mad respect to papa francisco for chaos dunking vance and then peacing out

josie.zone•13 hours ago

Hater hall of fame status

mxlabradorite.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"I said what I said!" Dropped mic, dropped dead.

realfinney.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Francisco seemed to me as good as any Pope would be allowed to be.

abooklysolo.bsky.social•11 hours ago

America is most definitely a giant hellmouth.

cmirar.bsky.social•7 hours ago

📌

wilcoxmer.bsky.social•13 hours ago

the most metal phrase any church official has ever uttered. he was Alright.

peterlynn.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Respectfully, he also once said, “The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth,” and Pile of Filth is an incredible name for a metal band.

abooklysolo.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Especially since Cradle of Filth is already taken.

josie.zone•13 hours ago

Not too bad, for sure

ladycarpenter.bsky.social•6 hours ago

“I said what I said.”

- Cool Pope

boxy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Popes choose their words very, very carefully, and the references to 'losers' and 'construction site' are pretty much the papal version of "Not Like Us."

cheche300.bsky.social•7 hours ago

go with peace, Pope Francis Lamar 🕊️

caseinsensit1ve.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Pictured: Pope Francis

msmollympls.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Noooo LMAOO

nordaltsee.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The complete statement is even better

soylentorange.bsky.social•9 hours ago

There's a reason I referred to him as Pope Freshness. Dude was legit in so many ways the modern church needs to be and so often isn't.

nickthap.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Coincidence that Pope Francis dies a few hours after meeting JD Vance?

jordanalimt.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I'm an ex-Christian, but my classmate back in a strict Christian school got mad at Pope Francis for protecting the gays, lesbians and queers. Looking back, he was a big deal to why I became a converter in the first place.

enginerdnate.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I’m fundamentally opposed to the entire concept of The Pope but on a human level he seemed like an alright one.

thebarbarienne.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And this is how I learned that the pope died.

stickybunny.bsky.social•5 hours ago

lordbusinessman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Pope Francis had bangers, its true, he had some ceiling moments to go along with the baggage and everything else that comes from Being Pope

fenbeast.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Kind of the ultimate mic drop, when you think about it. Not to mention that he refused to see JD Vance at roughly the same pass (although: if I were dying and I knew it, and VP showed up wanting to talk to me, I would choose likewise, albeit probably with more profanity).

fenbeast.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Oops, my bad, I see that in the end he DID spend some of his last moments with Vance. (The many, many jokes about the visit-and-departure sequence are cracking me up.)

sheadapts.bsky.social•8 hours ago

His hit on Trump's 2020 election was a thing of beauty.

invinaveritas.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And he'd know, he's a South American old enough to remember Pinochet.

vivi-sected.bsky.social•8 hours ago

You absolutely don't have to hand it to the head of the catholic church

cutlass00.bsky.social•11 hours ago

He met JD Vance and then died immediately afterward, which means that talking to JD Vance is lethally soul crushing

shake1n1bake.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The capstone of a career of it
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josie.zone•6 hours ago

Damn this blew up

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josie.zone•9 hours ago

Well that's it, I'm fucked

beccanalia.bsky.social•5 hours ago

That "666" is the mark of Nero used by early Xians in their writing. As you're not Nero, you're fine.

lollardfish.bsky.social•9 hours ago

hmmm, did he say it in Latin, Spanish, or Italian? Do you know? I didn't note the specific context of the remarks.

josie.zone•9 hours ago

I don't either!!

lollardfish.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Ci raccontano, i costruttori di Babele, che non si può sbagliare e chi cade è perduto. È il cantiere dell’inferno. L’economia di Dio invece non uccide, non scarta, non schiaccia

digitalvergil.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Do you have a source for these quotes?

lollardfish.bsky.social•8 hours ago

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/es/speeches/2025/april/documents/20250418-via-crucis.html

lollardfish.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Los constructores de Babel nos dicen que no es posible equivocarse y que el que cae está perdido; es la obra del infierno. La economía de Dios, por el contrario, no mata, no descarta, no aplasta; es humilde, fiel a la tierra.

pilgrimdear.bsky.social•8 hours ago

That’s the Vatican’s own official English translation of his Good Friday meditations—all Papal messages are translated into English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Polish, I believe. Notably this one is also given an Arabic translation.

lollardfish.bsky.social•8 hours ago

right, but what's missing is a latin one, so I'm curious what language he made his remarks in.

pilgrimdear.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Ohhh he didn’t actually say them! The Pope wrote everything, but the papal vicar (who is Italian), was the emcee with other participants, so my guess is Italian.