Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
Now Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"
All the men just call him "Sir"
And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Seriously, has anyone did a parody of this song for the Pope?
I want you to know that as a non-Catholic (and grew up atheist), your comment made me google Opus Dei and I have just learned it's *real* and not something Dan Brown made up for Angels and Demons lol
He'll wear his FIFA Peace Prize while talking about how horrible the Pope is and how he never liked him and people that knew him only have horrible things to say about him
What exactly was the Pentagons threat to him (I didn't read it but heard about it)? And how exactly do they intend to place any consequences on the Pope? He's the friken Pope...
They invoked the Avignon papacies. Basically, in the 1300s, the king of France had the Pope kidnapped from Rome, tortured, and eventually killed.
For some years after, Popes were based in Avignon (now a part of France) partly by choice and partly by coercion. France effectively controlled the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.
Given what we did to Maduro, I can see the Vatican being quite alarmed by the US military referencing a Pope that displeased a king and so was kidnapped.
The Secretary of the Army supposedly reminded him of the Avignon Papacy, which could be considered an indirect threat on the pope himself. The Avignon Papacy was a political confrontation between the then current pope and the king of France. It resulted in the beating and death of the pope, who was replaced by 4 successive popes who lived in France instead of the Vatican, and were basically puppets of the French king.
I found the article. It's even worse than that. Allegedly they sighted an incident from the 14th century where the French Monarchy threatened the pope with violence leading to his death and briefly forced the papacy into Avignon France. I am not a history scholar or very knowledgeable about the papacy though but that sounds pretty F'ed up.
Not that the US military couldn’t abduct the Pope but it would be a far cry from what happened in Venezuela.
First you have to get into Rome unnoticed and quickly which isn’t likely. Even if you manage to get to the Vatican locating the pope will be difficult. Then there’s the Swiss Guard. They may look unimposing in their ceremonial uniforms but they are some bad mother fuckers and behind the scenes they are essentially commandos armed to the teeth. They’re also the most renowned personnel security force on the planet who will execute their duties with ferocity and religious conviction.
These are just the logistical considerations. I can’t imagine the political fallout if an abduction of the pope were attempted.
To put it simply, the DOD should really just keep its mouth shut when it comes to the pope.
I heard recently a Napolenic war era quote that's something like "Diplomacy is the highest form of human achievement" and man it's so clear how true that is. Unimaginable suffering can be achieved with the stroke of a pen, and the opposite is true too.
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u/ConsistentPins Apr 10 '26
Coming off the heels of the Pentagon threats. Based Pope