Pope Francis has died (updated 21st April 2025)

You will find that very few young Irish people will watch even a minute of it. They have no interest whatsoever and probably view it all as plain weird. I have huge confidence in our young people to position all organised religion exactly where it should be in Irish society in the near future. They simply have no baggage or brainwashing and will abandon all the nonsense involved.

I always cringe when I hear that stuff. Like the hint is literally in the name.

Talk about completely missing the point.

The item should have coverage but it RTE should not be a platform to promote the Catholic Church which I find it often is.

Also, in reality not impacting many people. In work this morning and nobody mentioned it.

I was watching the news last night and my 12 year old came into the room.

“Still dead?!” He asked with a smirk.

I was very proud

RTE show an awful lot of stuff which few people want to watch. Many of their programmes seem to exist only to keep a favoured presenter in a job.

They still don't dare remove the twice daily catholic call to prayer. They're an organisation stuck in an Ireland of decades ago.

I suppose the next pope is going to be another Ratzinger type who is much more of a fire-breathing traditionalist with questions about Vatican II and little regard for nice public pronouncements.

Similar experience years ago and decided then that while I believe in JC I could not follow a religion whose leaders were so hypocritical and judgemental of others while not keeping their own house clean .

I agree he did not do enough for those abused and for women but he did make some efforts to change the Curia and the system and he apologized publicly and acknowledged the wrong doings which had not been done before

Not enough for many who suffered at the hands of nuns , priests and bishops. Certainly no attempt at proper reparation .

I think that the RCC needs to be dismantled completely and its wealth distributed and to start again with the involvement of ordinary people if that is what people want ...but that's not going to happen any time soon .

And there is a lot of people young and old who are happy with the church and will not see that it needs to change so our talking about it from the outside is irrelevant to them .

Any change needs to come from those religious faithful themselves .

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While I’m not celebrating the death of Mr Pope, I will laugh at a joke about the woo that he was a big part of.
I’m delighted that my children grow up in a world where it is ok to ridicule such foolish beliefs.

But that’s just plain wrong because there’s millions of people in Ireland who do practice religion and those programs are for them. It’s a state broadcaster and whether you like it or not people in the state are religious to varying degrees.

Like when you compare to some other countries, namely the states, we’re very mild in our approach to God and religion etc.

every morning our children don’t pledge allegiance to a flag, we don’t say “God Bless Ireland” every time we finish a sentence and besides communion and confirmations being still practiced for in school we’ve come a long, long way since I was a young lad in primary school towards opening our eyes and minds a bit.

I personally follow no organised religion or religion at all for that matter. But that said it offers some people the peace and comfort they require in a dark time and just something to believe in which is no harm at all. Why do you (and so many others for that matter) care that other folks practice religion? When’s the last time, honestly now, you had someone “force” it on you?

Honestly like some people really do act like they are raped daily with a crucifix. Religion is all around us whether we like it or not; it’s an individual choice to decide if you follow it or ignore it. But you can’t expect everyone to agree with you because you don’t want to see the Angelus or hear about the Pope.

I was watching House M.D yesterday on Netflix with the Mrs. No point to that comment only to say it didn’t have a mention of the pope- so if RTE’s coverage is upsetting you, maybe be a big boy and just change the fcuking channel?

For balance maybe RTE should have “The Life of Brian” on the other channel

Do you mind them running all the primary schools?

Do you mind when they lobby to change the laws of the land to suit their weird beliefs?

Do you mind when they discriminate against LGBTQ? They are allowed to do legal weddings (unless you’re gay of course). We should take the legal weddings off them immediately. It’s 2025 ffs.

Let them play their woo by themselves but their ridiculous beliefs have no place outside in modern society.

It’s news that Mr Pope is dead and they will put on a great show because that’s what they do best - marketing. They are selling eternal life to fools at a cost.

I’m sure no more inquisitions and not backing crusades is some kind of change from back in the day.