Music producer Roy Thomas Baker, who worked on albums for the Cars, Foreigner, The Stranglers and Guns N' Roses, oversaw the signing of Metallica and Simply Red, and most famously, produced Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and multiple albums for the iconic band, has died at age 78. Here's @Variety's tribute to him.
IMPORTANT: “Young generations have a right to receive a beautiful and inhabitable world from us.” — Pope Francis in 2023
While #ClimateChange consequences were exploding, from extreme heat and wildfires, to storms, droughts and more, Pope Francis was updating his ‘green’ encyclical. #RIP
As climate change fears rise, ...
Do you think the Pope dying mere hours after meeting J.D. Vance is like in Return of the Jedi when Yoda was tired of Luke’s conversation and he just laid down and died?
#rip #Franziskus
Ein starkes Zeichen, dass er am Fest der Auferstehung sterben durfte.
#FediKirche
can you imagine the Trump and MAGA meltdown with an African pope?
https://mastodon.world/@mapache_tico/114377156103200153
The problem with the #left is so many judgments out there are absolute
But the only way to get #progress in this world is to be relative:
Is someone moving in a good direction, regardless of where they are starting from?
Then you applaud that
That is true #morality
Absolutism is just ego masturbation. It doesn't change the world
So I mourn the passing of #PopeFrancis
I recognize the good he did in the confines he operated in, on issues dear to the left
And so should you
REP. @vincentdixiefortn.bsky.social : “Pope Francis championed for migrants, the poor, the marginalized — we do a lot of things in this arena in the name of Christianity, it’s time for us to step up and do what’s right, and do God’s Will.” #RIP
#RIP Pope Francis, the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, died on Easter Monday. He was 88 years old.
Oh, jeez.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-francis-dead-1.7514706 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pope-francis-death-reaction-toronto-1.7514740
The guy wasn't perfect, but he accomplished some important things—and in this time of authoritarianism, intolerance, and general right-wing backlash, I fear what the next guy could be like.
Mort du Pape François : cinq livres pour comprendre son message https://actualitte.com/a/ET41ciDN
#papefrancoise #vatican #RIP #deces #oeuvres #message
The Pope in December, re: Israel’s attack on Gaza — “Yesterday, children were bombed. This is cruelty, this is not war.” #RIP
and again, don’t give a fuck about your anti-papism today.
today isn’t about you.
this is for the Catholics for whom this information is important.
this is how bad things were with the Catholic Church before Pope Francis: they didn’t recognize rape of adults by, nor within, the priesthood:
❝ VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.❞
PS:
about his handling of the rapists ―becuase they weren’t just pedophiles. many nuns and priests had their Me Too moment: he abolished the one protection that helped the predators avoid the criminal courts:
PONTIFICAL SECRECY
“The Pope abolishes the pontifical secret in cases of sexual abuse”
Vatican News - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-12/pope-abolishes-pontifical-secret-sexual-abuse-clergy.html
I was up all night and I'm just getting this #news now?
#Breaking Pope Francis, 266th occupant of the throne of St. Peter has died #RIP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-266th-occupant-of-the-throne-of-st-peter-has-died/ar-AA1Dj8PY
Pope Francis, died after an extended respiratory illness on April 21, the Vatican confirmed. He was 88 years old.
While not Catholic, I am still sad today. This was a #pope I was able to relate to, despite all the criticism one might have. Easter is the celebration of hope, life, and resurrection in the face of death. He symbolized that well in his last days and I wish him the peace he deserves now and all of us a worthy successor - we may need it more than we think. #rip
and i need to say this again:
Pope Francis wasn’t a Nazi or a fascist like Pope Rat and Pope Nazi before him.
but he was un católico latinoamericano y sobre todo, argentino. and he was a man, a patriarchal man, in all his inconsistent and contradictory glory.
so, again, atheists and anti-Papists: today isn’t about you.
just want the semi-lapsed catholics out there know, he was indeed the most progressive pope ever.
let’s hope the next one is even more so.
BTW this is why a lot of y’all might not even read a seemingly inocuous news articles like this one, about a group of catholic transgender women, some of them sex workers, being able to go to mass and take communion at the Vatican:
“For this group of trans women, the pope and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change” https://apnews.com/article/vatican-transgender-lgbtq-b3d67868504ba701cce09da9ecc94de0
these news clips are for the Catholic LGBTQI who care about this.
this isnt for you, atheists.