🧵 Pope Francis spent 12 years challenging power structures—Vatican elites, global capitalism, and U.S. policies.
From September 2024 to February 2025, he took quite a few balsey swings at the U.S. government and AI’s dangers. Then, his health collapsed under weird circumstances…
The timeline doesn’t add up, and nobody’s talking.
September 2024- March 2025
Pope Francis publicly criticizes U.S. candidates Trump and Harris
Onboard a papal flight, Francis denounces Trump’s immigration policies as “against life”
➥ Urges U.S. Catholics to vote “with conscience” and to “choose the poll lesser evil”
➥ Emphasizes the dignity of migrants and the moral failure of exclusionary policies
November 2024 – Election Fallout Trump won, with U.S. Catholic voters backing him by 20 points, flipping Biden’s 2020 edge.
That“lesser evil” jab put him at odds with the incoming administration and its Catholic allies, like JD Vance. Needless to say, shit got weird between the Vatican and U.S. conservatives.
January 28, 2025
➥ A week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration—as the U.S. rolled out sweeping AI initiatives, “digital ethics” boards, and surveillance infrastructure under the banner of ‘innovation’.
The Vatican releases ‘Antiqua et Nova’warning that AI is already being used to erode human agency and distort reality.
“Anthropomorphizing AI also poses specific challenges for the development of children, potentially encouraging them to develop patterns of interaction that treat human relationships in a transactional manner, as one would relate to a chatbot. Such habits could lead young people to see teachers as mere dispensers of information rather than as mentors who guide and nurture their intellectual and moral growth.”
It calls out governments, media, and tech firms by implication.
Based AI concerns
➟ February 10, 2025
Francis pens a public letter to U.S. bishops, criticizing immigration policies that criminalize the vulnerable and challenging the political use of Christianity to justify exclusion..
He rebukes Vance’s “ordo amoris” defense of deportations, insisting true Christian love embraces all.
It’s a direct challenge to the U.S. administration.
➟ Basically it says;
“Dear American Bishops,
Stop being weird about immigrants.
Jesus was a refugee. He, Mary, and Joseph had to flee to Egypt because a paranoid king wanted him dead. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the foundation. So when you act like Christianity has nothing to say about displaced people—you’re ignoring the origin story.
You don’t get to twist Church teaching into an excuse for cruelty. Deporting families, building cold, lifeless systems that leave people stranded in danger—that’s not order. That’s just abandonment in a cassock.
The Church was never meant to serve the powerful. It exists to defend the vulnerable—including the undocumented, the desperate, and yes, the ones you keep trying to send back across the desert.
If your version of Christianity involves turning people away, it’s not Christianity. It’s fear with a crucifix slapped on top.
So to summarize:
Stop being shitty. Love people. Even the ones you want to deport. Especially them.
With love,
Francis”
February 12, 2025 – Sudden Illness
Just two days after the letter, the Vatican announces Francis is hospitalized at Gemelli Hospital for “bronchitis.”
He’d been active, delivering sharp critiques. How does an 88-year-old go from bold public statements to a critical condition in 48 hours?
February 14, 2025-March 23, 2025 – A 38-Day Crisis
“Bronchitis” morphs into double pneumonia, an asthmatic crisis, anemia, and renal issues.
Doctors later describe two near-death episodes, including a February 28 incident where Francis inhaled vomit during a coughing fit.
The Vatican shares one photo and scant details. Why so vague?
March 23, 2025 – Frail Discharge After 38 days, Francis is discharged, visibly weak. The Vatican claims he’s recovering, but the leap from bronchitis to near-fatal illness is a bit jarring. He’d handled prior hospitalizations (2021 surgery, 2023 bronchitis) better.
What made this so different?
➤ April 19, 2025 – Meeting with
Successor, Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Vice President JD Vance met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, at the Apostolic Palace.
The Vatican described the meeting as an “exchange of opinions,” highlighting differing perspectives, particularly on immigration policies.
➤ April 20, 2025 – Brief Audience with Pope Francis
On Easter Sunday, Vance was permitted a brief private meeting with Francis at the Casa Santa Marta. The encounter, lasting a few minutes…🫤
➥ April 21, 2025 (Easter Monday): Pope Francis passes away at 7:35 a.m. local time at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta, due to a stroke and subsequent cardiac arrest…
🚨 He went from public appearance to a fatal coma overnight.
Later that day, they released this bizarre photo—his face visibly bruised, sunken, lifeless.
No statement. No explanation.
🚨 Francis had long pushed back against U.S. power—but days after his sharpest rebuke yet, warning against AI domination and condemning American deportation policies, he fell suddenly and critically ill?…
Vague Vatican reports, an overnight death, and unexplained bruises don’t align.
Was he silenced? What’s with these pics?
🚨There’s no middle ground in the conversation—just satanic cult theories or silence.
It was no secret that Pope Francis thought Vance was a schnuck.
What would make JD Vance suddenly fly to Rome on Easter weekend?
Easter. The holiest day in the Christian calendar…
What’s with the bruises?
Seems Normal…🫠
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