First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by mensetmanusman on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:58PM (#43931293)

These are the types of things talked about in small groups near your local cathedral by members of groups like Opus Dei everywhere around the world. All are welcome :)

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 08, 2025 @06:00PM (#43931803)

I don't think Opus Dei spends a lot of time discussing Rerum Novarum, honestly.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by CGMthrowaway on Thursday May 08, 2025 @07:05PM (#43932237)

What do they discuss? There is an Opus Dei church near me and I always wondered what was up

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by zorked on Friday May 09, 2025 @03:38AM (#43934615)

Opus Dei is an extreme reactionary group within the church. Leo XIII was a liberal pope responsible for the social doctrine of the church (this text).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_Opus_Dei

Personal experience: when I was in high school in my country there was a teacher who was in Opus Dei. He tried to recruit students by leaving them a letter and inviting them to a "scholarship". I got such a letter, I was so excited. The school found out about that and investigated. We're a mixed-race country. The Opus Dei teacher has invited exclusively white students. He had invited top students #2 to #4 in my class by grade, but not #1, who was black.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by mensetmanusman on Friday May 09, 2025 @06:57AM (#43935468)

Meanwhile I mostly interacted with Opus Dei members near Harvard that were Nigerian, Spanish, and Mexican.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by zorked on Friday May 09, 2025 @07:09AM (#43935534)

Each country has their own racial hierarchy that may not, and usually does not, match yours.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by mensetmanusman on Friday May 09, 2025 @01:47PM (#43939374)

This was the US.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by adl on Monday May 12, 2025 @03:02PM (#43966434)

Where they wealthy? That's the only thing the Opus Dei cares about.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by 4ggr0 on Friday May 09, 2025 @07:50AM (#43935786)

> We're a mixed-race country

There are single-race countries?

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by CGMthrowaway on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:51AM (#43937433)

Depending on how you count, Egypt, Morocco, Bangladesh, North Korea...

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by 4ggr0 on Friday May 09, 2025 @12:27PM (#43938596)

i know what you mean, although they're not single-race (i hate using this expression, omg) in a binary way. or at least only if you exclude the minorities in these countries who still make it diverse, be it in a small way.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by lambdaphagy on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:07AM (#43936941)

When I visited an Opus Dei house once for a philosophy lecture they were discussing Plato, the Timaeus in particular.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by tclancy on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:39PM (#43933070)

I dunno, they spent a ton of time talking about how to get rid of the last pope, so who knows which other "Actually believe the teachings of Christ" popes they bad-mouth when they get together?

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by cperciva on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:19PM (#43932974)

All are welcome

Including atheists?

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by bb86754 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:14PM (#43933224)

Yup

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by hokumguru on Friday May 09, 2025 @01:01AM (#43933926)

Especially atheists

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by mystified5016 on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:45AM (#43936681)

As long as you aren't a smug asshole about it, most religious people don't mind talking about religion with atheists. You have to be honestly interested in what they have to say and not just looking for a way to 'prove them wrong'

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by 90s_dev on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:05AM (#43945312)

Conversations with those kinds can be fun too, if you're in the right mood.

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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo... by toofy on Friday May 09, 2025 @05:08AM (#43935050)

while it wouldn’t surprise me to learn they might be discussing this, but if they were it would almost certainly be in disgust—opus dei is very very extreme in their dislike of ideas such as those from pope leo.

one of my grandparents dabbled, and every single one of them i’ve met were very… trying to be kind here… veerrry very into the church. not a normal into the church, much more extreme. i’m desperately trying not to use the c word, but it really does fit. if one finds themselves being taken in, truly, please, take just a lil bit and learn how orgs like scientology and heavens gate etc… recruit people. the recruitment similarities are uncanny. the after effects are uncanny.

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