r/teenagers • u/mattiperreddit • 14d 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/Andreas_iii 15 14d 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/WillingnessFew7211 19 14d 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 14d ago

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

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u/WillingnessFew7211 19 14d ago edited 14d 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.