kind of funny that Benedict's social conservatism is basically how 95% of trads understood him when the man was infinitely more complex

April 10, 2026 - 22:07 UTC

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Theology, biography, doctrine, whatever

Can i use his face in memes or no??
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even reading his economic encyclicals, Benedict was really more close to Francis than people let on
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Like, he was a German Christian Democrat! Also possibly the most formidable Catholic theologian since Aquinas ?
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www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html
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RIP Pope Benedict, you would have loved Zohran Mamdani
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They just liked the Nazi stuff
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North Americans don't know enough about German history, so they thought he was a nostalgist for Nazis when in reality he was a nostalgist for the years 1890-1914 and nothing else.
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