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Pope Francis has died (updated 21st April 2025)

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  • #302
    TheIrishGrover
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380763#Comment_123380763
    Untitled Image

    As expected



  • #303
    Rubberchikken
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    I appreciate iate the fact that I can take ir leave the religion I was born into.

    I don't feel and never have felt any pressure to partake in any of the ceremonies or have to live my life as certain other religions do.

    The pope has died. A little respect for the man's life and death can't hurt anyone.

    II'm All for sceptism and so on but a line can be drawn in how someone raises their kid to respond to news.



  • #304
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380709#Comment_123380709

    Thanks for biting.

    5% of primary schools are not religious. You obviously don’t have a problem with that number. I do - 100% of schools should be non religious (the same percentage as coffee shops and barbers).

    I have no problem with anyone lobbying, but why do they want the laws of the land to reflect their belief system? When they do this they want people of different beliefs and none to obey their weird rules. Fck that.

    I have no problem with someone getting ‘married’ in a church. I do have a problem with someone getting LEGALLY married in a church. If you discriminate against any persons then you should not be allowed to act on behalf of the state.

    Also, in my opinion anyone who supports the church is a facilitator of the abuse/cover ups and non payment of redress.

    Not to mention the woo - and there is a lot of woo.



  • #305
    TheIrishGrover
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    Ah, I thought you wanted to debate in good faith (pun intended). Anyone who supports a church facilitates abuse. Ok. Done. You win



  • #306
    ledwithhedwith
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    Struck down in his prime!



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  • #307
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380907#Comment_123380907

    Shur, they’re not all bad…



  • #308
    J.O. Farmer
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380869#Comment_123380869

    Do non religious people lobby for things they don't believe in and seek laws against their belief system.

    I thought anyone lobbying for a law would want the laws of the land to reflect their belief system.

    When they do this they want people of different beliefs and none to obey their weird rules.



  • #309
    Galwayguy35
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380287#Comment_123380287

    Good man.

    While your at it go to a mosque and ridicule their beliefs.

    But of course you wont because you would get the tar kicked out of you.



  • #310
    Allinall
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380954#Comment_123380954

    Correct.

    So why do you make out they are?



  • #311
    ledwithhedwith
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381136#Comment_123381136

    Is it the highest percentage of pedophiles in any grouping ever though? That's worrisome. I think the old Pope himself said 2%, a lot of articles have it at 4%.



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  • #312
    murpho999
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380550#Comment_123380550

    It’s two different issues really. The first one is RTE’s lack of proper 24 hour news coverage and a news channel that reacts fast. RTE News Now is a joke and can be ignored. I remember when IMF came to Ireland for bailout during financial crisis in 2009/10 and rte were not live and had to watch Brian Cowen announce it on Sky News. Ridiculous

    The issue I brought up is completely separate and about the quality of journalism and guests. I don’t think we should be listening to religious sermons and ideas on Rte News or Prime Time which is what we got last night.



  • #313
    Man Vs ManUre
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    I think Conor McGregor should be the next Pope!!



  • #314
    chicorytip
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    Any bookies taking bets on the successor? My money's on the Maltese lad.



  • #315
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380869#Comment_123380869

    What's woo???

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #316
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381092#Comment_123381092

    If the church had their way there would be no divorce, abortion or same-sex marriage in this country AND no contraception…. and not just for Catholics - for everyone.



  • #317
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381169#Comment_123381169

    Plus the cover ups by the bishops - moving abusers to new parishes where it all started again.

    If it happened in the gaa there would be no gaa.



  • #318
    Iscreamkone
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    Don’t get me started on “the religion of peace”. We need to wake up fast with this cult.



  • #319
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381190#Comment_123381190

    If you pray for it then it has just as good chance of happening as if you hoped for it…



  • #320
    Allinall
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381339#Comment_123381339

    What’s this “we” business?

    Who do you assume to speak for?



  • #321
    J.O. Farmer
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381327#Comment_123381327

    Yes but we have them because other people got their way. The laws of the land apply to everyone not just those who lobby for them.



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  • #322
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380623#Comment_123380623

    Atheism isn't really a belief, is it? It's not believing in man made deities. There is no belief system.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #323
    Iscreamkone
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381364#Comment_123381364

    Not every time. I’m old enough to remember losing a divorce referendum.

    Celibate men in frocks telling people what to do with regard to sex and relationships.



  • #324
    J.O. Farmer
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381390#Comment_123381390

    Every referendum there's one side gets what they want and the other doesn't.



  • #325
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381390#Comment_123381390

    Yeah I am old enough to remember people walking out of the church after the parish priest told them how to vote in the divorce referendum. Not many people but enough to be noticed. I had huge respect for those brave people when I was old enough to understand it all. The same priest was convicted of abusing altar boys years later.

    Post edited by Cluedo Monopoly on

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #326
    Economics101
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    Looking at a lot of posts on this thread, they seem to have strayed from the person whose death was just yesterday. So much for "de mortuis …."



  • #327
    Asdfgh2020
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123379774#Comment_123379774

    Rte will produce / show programs based on their well used model i.e. potential revenue generation. The larger the estimated viewing figures the more advertising revenue they can charge/sell slots for…the rates are determined as with any commodity/product/ service by supply and demand ….they obviously feel that a lot of people will watch programming about the popes death/successor and funeral.



  • #328
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123380565#Comment_123380565

    Millions in Ireland are practising catholics?

    Not anymore that's for sure.

    Why do I care? Because it's forced on kids in around 90% of our primary schools (and most of the rest are Church of Ireland) and that is just wrong.

    Because of the RCC's weird views, there are only single-sex secondary schools where I live (which all happen to be run by religious orders with very dodgy pasts)

    People are free to practice their religion all they like. That doesn't mean that that religion should still have huge inflence on taxpayer funded services like education, and even the health system. Priests and nuns sitting on the management boards of maternity hospitals…

    BTW I never said I don't want RTE to report on the death of the pope, that would be silly.

    RTE as our national broadcaster is supposed to reflect the views and values of our nation, so it being so utterly stuck in the past in the way it excessively panders to the RCC is a concern. It should report in a balanced way not a fawning way

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #329
    dublinman1990
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    I was reading in the news that CSA survivor Michael O'Brien had died yesterday. When he detailed his experiences of being the victim of CSA at the industrial school in Co. Tipperary on Questions & Answers on RTÉ did leave me in complete shock. He lived through huge periods of hell when he went through that abuse in that school when he was a young child. The sick levels of hassle he had gotten from the people in charge of commission on the Ryan report left me with no words in my mouth. There should have been no tolerance under the eyes of the Government of the day to allow that moments to happen in front of him when it wasn't neccessary. That moment is still regarded as an insult to all of the CSA victims who were here at the time of the Ryan report. It is also a very fitting moment that he died a day after Pope Francis left this earth on Easter Monday.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0422/1508963-michael-o-brien/

    May Michael O'Brien rest in eternal peace.



  • #330
    breezy1985
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123381640#Comment_123381640

    One of the most powerful moments in Irish TV history. For a man especially of his generation to to say in detail on national television what they done to his was incredible and I don't think any other moment has held such an enduring sense of shock for me.



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  • #331
    csirl
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    Abuse still going on and still being covered up. Redress not paid for previous abuse. No reforns to stop abuse going forward. No accountability. History wont be kind to Francis.



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