Pope Francis has died

[Hippea]

Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday aged 88

[greygoose]

Time to watch conclave again…..

[Dixy]

Did the Vatican news steel the PH logo.

[LimaDelta]

Dixy said:

Did the Vatican news steel the PH logo.

Edit - Not to make light of the death of the Pope of course.

[boyse7en]

Do we have to wait three days, just to make sure he doesn't come back?

[MXRod]

I am in No way religious , but I thought it was sad , the interventions to keep him alive when he was seriously ill went too far .

[ClaphamGT3]

Hopefully he will rest in peace.

I pray that wisdom and good judgement may attend those tasked with selecting his successor.

[scenario8]

I find it interesting that even in 2025, in a country with only a relatively small number of practising Catholics, this will almost certainly be covered to an enormous extent by the media and almost certainly will somehow be felt to be significant to many who don’t have much invested in religion at all.

I don’t know much about the guy. Hopefully he was a nice person. He held enormous clout and ran an organisation with remarkable power. I suspect I would disagree with him over very many things. Can’t say I’ll miss him or mourn him. Don’t imagine his passing will spark an existential debate about Catholicism or organised religion. If anything I suspect his passing will be a shot in the arm for Catholicism. At least for a while.

I just find organised religion, and the “glamour” of the papacy in particular mildly perplexing and interesting in that respect.

[sam.rog]

Bit of an extreme way to not meet JD Vance. But who can blame him.

[mikeiow]

sam.rog said:

Bit of an extreme way to not meet JD Vance. But who can blame him.

Sadly he DID get to meet him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/jd...
Vance will dine out on that for decades

Talk about a life of service & sacrifice. Bit like the Queen having to meet Truss…..

RIP.

[ClaphamGT3]

sam.rog said:

Bit of an extreme way to not meet JD Vance. But who can blame him.

It is the ultimate in "I'm afraid that I have a subsequent engagement"

[dickymint]

We watched His speech yesterday. I turned to the MIL and said "he'll be dead within the month" !! Citing a dear old friend (Vicar) who was terminally ill - he was hell bent (not literally I hope) to make it for a final Easter Sunday mass. RIP

[Wacky Racer]

sam.rog said:

Bit of an extreme way to not meet JD Vance. But who can blame him.

[W12GT]

mikeiow said:

sam.rog said:

Bit of an extreme way to not meet JD Vance. But who can blame him.

Sadly he DID get to meet him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/jd...
Vance will dine out on that for decades

Talk about a life of service & sacrifice. Bit like the Queen having to meet Truss…..

RIP.

Hardly something for Vance to shout about…pope dies just after meeting him. Bit like finding out an ex girlfriend turned lesbian and you were the last bloke she slept with…..(or of course vice versa)…

[nicanary]

Dixy said:

Did the Vatican news steel the PH logo.

Shorpe ?

[HocusPocus]

Pope dies after an "exchange of views" with JD Vance. Add it to JFK and moon landing conspiracies.

RIP holy father, a life of service to God well lived.

[MXRod]

greygoose said:

Time to watch conclave again…..

And The 2 Popes

[loafer123]

The short bit of R4 was unintentionally funny when the speaker said “I’m not saying God is an Englishman, he could be Sudanese or Yemeni. He could even be French.”

[Magikarp]

I wonder which horribly conservative (traditionalist) 82 year old they will elect as god’s will now?

[vaud]

Magikarp said:

I wonder which horribly conservative (traditionalist) 82 year old they will elect as god’s will now?

They don’t always. Pope John Paul was 58 when he became pope.