This past weekend, I had a brief encounter with a ranting, raving kook howling about nefarious Jews and the virtues of the Tao. He also predicted that the Pope would die in 48 hours.
Uh-oh. The Pope has died.
Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution.
He was 88, and had suffered a serious bout of double pneumonia this year, but his death came as a shock after he had been driven around St. Peter’s Square in an open-air popemobile to greet cheering crowds on Easter Sunday.
He was 88, had been very ill, so it’s not much of a prediction, but OK, he gets to score 1 point. I’m going to predict that the street kook is feeling full of himself today and is babbling more nonsense more vehemently, a prediction that is even more predictable.
I’m sure your mate is wandering around staring in amazement at his finger like Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell.
The real question is, what poison did J D Vance use? Because it is no coincidence; just watch Fox News there is always a plot behind the events.
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This death/murder is of course intended to stir up interest for the woke, librul film Conclave.
Wake up, sheeple.
The guy who gave him Covid weeks ago killed him, not JD Vance. But when the death cult wheeled him out for his last urbi et orbi on Sunday, every emergency physician in the world including myself, could see that he was very close to death.
We don’t know that, but we know where he got it from – that practised and expert poisoner, Vladimir Putin.
Two days after he met with JD Vance. I guess looking into the eyes of Satan was just too much for his old heart.
Perhaps Trump will demand the right to name the next pope. Someone who is a true Christian, not like this phony Christian who sometimes seemed to care about people. Or perhaps Trump will demand to be pope…the next stage in his reign as god emperor of the universe.
Oh non-existent God! Now we have to watch the world slobber over that bigoted old pedophile-enabler!
I celebrated Easter like the now-ex-Pope’s boss, by waking up on Sunday morning. Little did I realize………
“Perhaps Trump will demand the right to name the next pope.”
Possible, and there is an American hardcore conservative cardinal named amongst the 10 most likely successors. But surely, if there is a god, he must make sure that we get Pope Pizzaballa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbattista_Pizzaballa
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Or Timothy Dolan.
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What is John Cleese doing in the cardinal outfit?
Months ago, I predicted the pope would die.
Bonus prediction. The next pope will die too.
rorschach@10,
I notice that today is Pizzaballa’s 60th birthday! Could the Holy Spirit give any clearer indication of who should be elected??
larpar@13,
You’re assuming that there will be a next Pope. But according to the
forgeryprophecies of St. Malachy, the one who’s just handed in his dinner pail should be the last in the long-running series. Expect the Vatican to be nuked before the cardinals finish their deliberations!Find this kook and ask him what the Mega Millions numbers are.
KG@15
Forgive my ignorance of St. Malachy.
The thing I wonder is how long the crackpot has been saying the Pope will die “in the next 48 hours for” After all, the Pope has been very sick since about February this year and already nearly died a couple of times so a big surprise this is not. especally given his age.
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@ larpar : The one after that is gunna be immortal tho’right?
KG@15: A right that was another one of these ancient prophecies that were amazingly accurate up to the year they were “discovered”.
Well that’s one thing he predicted right. Everything else is s***.
Of course Nostradamus predicted that a set of fake prophecies about the Papacy would be “discovered” in 1590 :-p
I think canon law requires that the prophet is now anointed as the new Pope.
I think one Finnish colloquial expression for death, “moving to another diocese”, would be incredibly fitting for the Bishop of Rome – the leader of a vast Christian organization known for shuffling criminal or otherwise ill-behaved priests from one diocese to another.
In the news: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-died-stroke-heart-failure-vatican-doctor-says-2025-04-21/
Note that the last time there was speculation he had COVID, it was denied by the Vatican (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/pope-francis-taken-hospital-respiratory-infection).
The upcoming conclave is a brilliant opportunity for South Park or Family Guy to really go to town with gross humor.
I want to apply for the next Pope. I promise I’ll get rid of the pedos.
Oldie but a goodie, Alverant:
I wish he’d lived to see justtce, but I’ll take death as a consolation prize. Alone, in pain and afraid of his own hell is too much too ask.
“Note that the last time there was speculation he had COVID, it was denied by the Vatican”
It’s just that these bilateral pneumonias, especially those followed by strokes or heart attacks, generally used to be a bit hard to come by before Covid. ;)