Pope Francis
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Pope Francis is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 05, 2022 and April 28, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Her conclusion manages to weave in Pope Francis”; “Pope Francis says JD Vance is misusing the Catholic idea of ordo amoris”; “discussing how Pope Francis’ passing obsoletes a 500-year-old apocalyptic prophecy”. It most often appears alongside China, /r/NootropicsDepot, @fae_dreams.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 05, 2022
- Last seen: April 28, 2025
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- China (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Her conclusion manages to weave in Pope Francis, because apparently when you start a book with a Pope you need to finish with one, but also touches on the idea of exhaustion of natural resources, climate change and the vagaries of capitalism to create an idea that maybe, after a succession of periods in which everyone thought their age was the most draining, perhaps we are indeed the ones with the best reasons to be exhausted.
21: Pope Francis says JD Vance is misusing the Catholic idea of ordo amoris. Part of me feels bad for Vance, because the Pope is in many ways a typical Boomer liberal, and Vance has optimized his entire life around not having to listen to typical Boomer liberals, and it seems harsh to nab him at the last second on a technicality like “you’re Catholic and he’s the Pope”. But another part of me thinks this is only fair - you get credibility by citing Latin terms from the venerable Western tradition instead of normal English sentences like “I am a psychopath who doesn’t care whether people outside my immediate family live or die”, so the guardians of that tradition should have the right to police how you use the credibility you borrow from them. Still, it seems harsh. I recommend he try Anglicanism - almost as venerable, but strongly pro- heads of state doing psychopathic things without the Pope interfering.
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3: New subscribers-only post, With This Character’s Death, The Thread Of Prophecy Is Severed, discussing how Pope Francis’ passing obsoletes a 500-year-old apocalyptic prophecy (or not).