The Vatican sought to defend Pope Francis on Tuesday after he sparked fury in Ukraine by praising Russia’s imperial rulers — a history President Vladimir Putin has invoked to justify his ongoing war.
The Kremlin delighted in the controversy, which stemmed from comments the pontiff made to a group of young Russian Catholics urging them to see themselves as the heirs of a “great” empire.
“Don’t forget your heritage. You are the descendants of great Russia: the great Russia of saints, rulers, the great Russia of Peter I, Catherine II, that empire — educated, great culture and great humanity,” he told them in St. Petersburg by live video Friday.
No country is great, we’re all decadent apes squating in the corpse of our ancestors. We could be great, if we didn’t squander all of our time and resources fucking each other.
But… God’s on my side not theirs!
Amen
Of course, the Pope and Vatican praise imperialism, it probably reminds them of their glory days of the Inquisition They also supported Nazism. They continue to enable and support pedophilia.
Being praised by the Pope & the Vatican is a certificate of being morally corrupt & wrong.
Never a better time to say I’m out of this madness called religion.
Tbf there is a Russia that’s great that is unconnected to the majority of it’s leaders.
That said, it’s not the one we see today.
Russia is a country with rampant homophobia and bigotry with domestic and sexual violence are just a way of life for women and children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Russia
So wherever this “great” Russia is, it goes far beyond just Putin’s cronies.
There just isn’t. It was great in the same way the British Empire, the French Empire, the Spanish Empire, the American Empire, were “great”. Big? Yes. Powerful? Yes. Forces of mass oppression and murder? Also yes. Praising Imperialists is going to win no favors.
The Bolshevik revolution was a blood bath of royals, but that was because Russia was the only major power to make it out of the revolutions of 1848 without losing their absolute monarchy. Russia still had friggin peasants prior to the Bolsheviks.
If the USSR hadn’t gone the route of “permanent revolution” (ie permanent authoritarian government), there could have been a past to look bad fondly on. But instead the boot changed color, and they decided to make their neighbors learn of their peaceful ways, by force.
Russian Orthodox broke communion with Constantinople over recognizing the autocephaly of churches the Russian one felt it was in charge of (primarily Ukraine). Eastern rite Catholic churches see that schism as an in for themselves. They want to convince Russians they can keep their character while becoming Catholic. It’s not actually helpful to Russian nationalists if the Catholics succeed, because they’re tied to the Russian Orthodox.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Moscow%E2%80%93Constantinople_schism
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just stick with encouraging and protecting pedos. its what you are good at.
