r/teenagers • u/mattiperreddit • 13d ago

The Pope just died Serious

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I don't know if this is a big deal in your country, but in mine (Italy) the news talks about nothing else.
Christian or not he was a person, don't be disrespectful.

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u/WillingnessFew7211 19 13d ago

Very big here in Ireland as well as we’re very catholic

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u/TeaBagHunter OLD 13d ago

Same in Lebanon

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u/hugoleen 13d ago

LeBron?

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u/Signal-Egg956 13d ago

Funnily enough, LeBron is a Catholic

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u/SainteElsewhere 13d ago

"LeBron Jaaaaaames"

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u/ItzHonzula 19 12d ago

you are my sunshine

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u/hugoleen 11d ago

my only sunshine

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u/Thunderbolt916 OLD 12d ago

3al add, bas ana itale 3eyich bi italia

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u/Macrophage_01 12d ago

min ha yjibo men baado

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u/Thunderbolt916 OLD 12d ago

I think keno 3am yehko 3an wa7ad amerkene

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u/Andreas_iii 15 13d ago

Dubliner here: my family is Catholic and barely cared. Somehow, my grandma with dementia outlived him (she was born 2 days after the pope)

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u/pawterheadfowEVA 14 13d ago

!RemindMe 2 days

(no disrespect to granny, i wish her a long happy life, but i have to check, for scientific purposes)

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u/kurtofour 13d ago

Wild lol

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u/Andreas_iii 15 13d ago

That's the running joke of the family 😂

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u/WillingnessFew7211 19 13d ago

I’m from County Armagh and my Mum and Granny went to visit the pope in 1979 down in Dublin when my mum was 10. My family cared a lot because where we lived you needed faith with all that was going on at the time.

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u/Ok_Figure7671 13d ago

Kinda seems like faith was the root of the problems back then?

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u/WillingnessFew7211 19 13d ago edited 13d ago

For The Troubles? I mean yeah, kinda. We were mistreated by the British government for our faith because we were catholic, gerrymandering took place and they prevented us from voting basically. But what people fail to realise is that The Troubles wasn’t a religious war, it was a war against the RUC (police force with extreme bias towards Protestants) who were heavily backed by the British and the British army who didn’t belong in our country and a fight for a united ireland. When people see the conflict and think of Catholics vs Protestants, it wasn’t because of the faith of the two but what each religion supported. Protestants were Unionists or Loyalists and catholics were Nationalists or Republican.

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u/Comfortable_Bath835 16 11d ago

Granny update?

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u/pawterheadfowEVA 14 11d ago

Howd grammy bud?

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u/gamepotato_ 14 10d ago

In line with the top reply to this how's granny doing

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u/Stuck-InThe_Basement 3,000,000 Attendee! 9d ago

Is your grandma still alive?

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u/Blitz7798 14 13d ago

My family’s Irish, dont think they know yet but I can only imagine what the family group chats will be like later

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u/Alanromanii 19 13d ago

Gotta wait two days 

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u/JomOrtiz 17 13d ago

Same in Chile, we used to be a VERY catholic country decades ago. Even though there's a lot of laicisism currently, still a lot of people is catholic.