April 25, 2025 • 10 mins
On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis went on to glory. And if we grading on a curve, he's pretty special. Let's pour some communion wine out for the top Catholic.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Media. Hey, Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome to the Hood
Politics tap In. These are going to be Friday drops
a little bit shorter. Just most of the time, they
gonna be somewhat of a grab bag, you know, stuff
that almost like the Hood Politics this week in the
show and on the news type beat that I do
(00:24):
on my socials. But it's also gonna be times where
maybe a story broke in between the recording and the
dropping of this week's episode, and it's something that maybe
doesn't warrant a full show, but we definitely need to
stop and talk about this one. Ain't gonna be no
good time because this one's about the Pope. Seeing as
(00:44):
how there's one point four billion Catholics, this particular pope,
Pope Francis, is pretty unique. Let me just take a
minute tap in with y'all and talk about why this
nigga was different. This episode is called we relatively speaking,
lost the real one. Tap in with me, baby, all right.
(01:13):
Pope Francis, he died at eighty eight. He's unique in
a lot of ways, one of which is the fact
that he's the first Latin American pope ever. Now, if
you wasn't going to any sort of mass, you just
regular church folk. You may be deceived into thinking that
Catholics ain't Christians, but you have to remember up until
the fifteen hundreds, all churches were Catholic. I'm referring to
(01:33):
the Protestant Reformation. But don't think you're not connected to this.
But even if you're not religious at all, you have
to appreciate a person that moves culture as powerfully as
a pope. But this ain't no theology. Course. We talking
about Pope Francis, Pope being sick. He was from Brana,
Saidrez Argentina. He don't come from money. That's one of
the reasons that makes him so unique. He don't really
(01:54):
come from money. That boy name is Jorge, Italian immigrant
family really just built different in relation to the rest
of the other posts that's being before him now. In
the same way that I say I come from the
church and Christian traditions, I come from a black and
urban church. I don't come from you know, trump loving,
evangelical power hungry. I don't come from that. I come
from a different tradition that built underground railroads and fought
(02:16):
for the civil rights movement. Pope Francicas can say the
same thing fratchscan ordered Jesuit. They are not like the
Medici winniperisera power hungry. They built different, which is what
made him so different. That's not to say that just
like my tradition got his problems, his tradition got his problems.
And if we're grading on a curve in relation to
the two posts before him, this man a dog on
(02:37):
black Panther, Pope Benedict, Pope John Paul the Second considered
themselves a return to orthodoxy, very conservative, and a lot
of the reasons, why I believe it or not, people
had been leaving in droves the Catholic Church. I'm just
quoting stat y'all. So you have that high rich, incredibly
stick nef version. But then you have the version of
the desert Mothers and the Desert Fathers. If you get
(02:58):
a chance to read stuff like that, francescan order that
believed in aesthetics and that God's first incarnation of himself
was creation. And if you believe the first way that
God revealed himself as creation, therefore creation is holy, and
all of God's creatures are holy, including the earth. So
you already got somebody by just the strength of his name,
(03:19):
is going to support issues to mitigate climate change, and
is going to advocate for humans despite whatever faith they
got that's already out the name. This the tradition that
builds hospitals. The Claptom group that are the reason people
in jail have civil rights. You know the fact that
they get three meals a day. That's because of William
Wilberford's in the Clapton group, who of course has issues.
(03:39):
But again these are two different tracks. Pope Francis as
a Jesuit, who are known for their embracing of poverty,
supporting of the suffering and the downtrodden, and doing something
called descending into the particulars when it comes to the
things that are right or wrong. For example, is it
wrong to lie? I mean, yeah, it's one of the sins. However,
what if this is not Germany and there's some Jews
(04:01):
you're hiding under your house? Still wrong? They lie? Jesuits
descending into the particular. Now, having said that, so, Pope
Francis in a lot of ways symbolized a return to
in some ways the Catholic Church first Love, which was
service to the poor as an act of worship today God,
So because of that he was seen as too woke
(04:24):
by some of them, but also a lot of people
was like, man, this the faith. I fell in love
with this, the Jesus that I thought I were. Enter Jorge,
normal kid, actually wanted to be a scientist, gets his
epiphany whatever however apocryphal. That story is joins the priesthood.
Through a series of things they win, got time for
becomes the Bishop of Buenos Aires, which is a super
(04:47):
big deal if you've ever been to Argentina or just
understand South America and Catholics. But the picture that made
its rounds because his name started he you know, he
started buzzing around town because there was this picture that
went around of this man riding the bus and it's like, ooh,
he different, you different. So fast forward to twenty thirteen.
(05:08):
Pope Benedict the Second retires, which is something that don't
ever happen. Now, you have to remember the popes have
been Italian for thousands of years, and since Pope Benedict
was such a hall monitored rule following just not embracing modernity.
The idea that Francis followed up after this was a
big deal. This man only spoke Spanish. He refused to
(05:29):
do homilies in Latin because don't nobody speak Latin. Give
the word to the people. You can make your argument
about changing the system from within or burning it down
and starting over. I'm gonna let y'all flesh that out
in the comments. The way that Pope Francis did is
he like, well, if I'm in charge, remember, because he
comes from the bottom and his perception of how the
(05:49):
world works is one that says you should be near
to the broken hearted. So he went incredibly hard for refugees,
for the suffering, and just known for these grand gestures.
He ain't drive around in that Pope mobile. He even
said when he passes that he don't want no big
old orn ages put me in a wooden box. I
(06:09):
ain't with all that get the money to the kids.
He was more a return to the direction that the
church was already on its way to, and John Paul
and Pope Benedict were like two old school big Homie
has not held his tongue throughout most of our refugee crises, Syrian,
our border situation, this war in Gaza. He ain't held
(06:29):
his tongue, which is really cool to hear bare minimum
on the LGPTQ front, but at least he spoke up
and said something. I mean, it's a two thousand year
old institution with one point four billion people. It's really
hard to move an institution that large. You gotta do
small steps. I guess still on that celibate papalc with
all males, he still think if you got a vagina,
(06:50):
you can't be a priest. Now, like I said, grating
on a curve is still something, but he was really
being about what he talked about. One of the quotes
is hypocrisy is to call yourself a Christian and chase
away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is
hungry or is thirsty, tossed out someone who is in
need of my help. If I say I am a
(07:12):
Christian but do these things, I am a hypocrite. Good
for you. Pope Francis in his final homily, there is
something sort of poetic in passing away on Resurrection Sunday
and giving these words. What he says is, I would
like us to renew our hope that peace is possible
(07:32):
from the Holy Sepulcher from the Church of Resurrection, where
this year's Easter is being celebrated. By Catholics and Orthodox
on the same day. May the light of peace radiate
through the Holy Land and the entire world. I express
my closeness to the sufferings of Christians in Palestine and Israel,
and to all the Israeli people and Palestinian people. The
(07:54):
growing climate of anti Semitism throughout the world is worrisome.
Yet in the same I think people of Gaza and
it's Christian community in particular, where the terrible conflict continues
to cause death and destruction and create a dramatic, deplorable
humanitarian situation. I appeal to the warring parties, call the
seas fire, release the hostages, come to the aid of
(08:17):
starring people that aspires for a future of peace. Grading
on a curve, he doing better than almost every popit
in our church, unless you're black. But we're gonna put
that on the side. And now the fun part. JD. Vance.
He the most memorable man on earth. Every time he
touched some break y'all see that man break the dog
(08:39):
Holt Championship trophy man. What the hell is wrong with
this man? Do you know what the story is? The
Pope ain't want to meet him, tell that he had
to send a cardinal out there to be like, tell
that man, just all I'm asking just be a little
you mean as fuck man. He didn't say fuck, He
just like you just mean. I'm just I'm not with it.
Even after meeting with JD's vance, He's called their deportation
(09:04):
plans a disgrace and not Christian, letting y'all know that's
what the man said. Hit go another Pope Burner. What
a great thirst for death, for killing we witness each
day in many conflicts raging in different parts of the world.
How much violence we see directed towards women and children,
how much contempt is stirred up towards the vulnerable, the marginalized,
(09:28):
the migrants. On this day, I would like for us
to hope anew and to revise our trust in others,
including those who are different than ourselves, or whom come
from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of ideas for
all of us, our children of God. Yeah, we lost
a relatively real one. Now who knows where we're going next.
(09:51):
Apparently Pope Francis selected one hundred and eight out of
one hundred and thirty five cardinals, and what he did
this time was he got these cardinals from all over
the world, most of them from conflict regions, areas where
there's high diversity of religious beliefs. Because the pope believes
in DEI Lord, may God grant us another woke pope.
(10:16):
But I'll leave y'all with this, the question every black
person on Earth is asking, or at least every black
person in America is asking right now, who won't do
the body tap in with me?
Media. Hey, Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome to the Hood
Politics tap In. These are going to be Friday drops
a little bit shorter. Just most of the time, they
gonna be somewhat of a grab bag, you know, stuff
that almost like the Hood Politics this week in the
show and on the news type beat that I do
(00:24):
on my socials. But it's also gonna be times where
maybe a story broke in between the recording and the
dropping of this week's episode, and it's something that maybe
doesn't warrant a full show, but we definitely need to
stop and talk about this one. Ain't gonna be no
good time because this one's about the Pope. Seeing as
(00:44):
how there's one point four billion Catholics, this particular pope,
Pope Francis, is pretty unique. Let me just take a
minute tap in with y'all and talk about why this
nigga was different. This episode is called we relatively speaking,
lost the real one. Tap in with me, baby, all right.
(01:13):
Pope Francis, he died at eighty eight. He's unique in
a lot of ways, one of which is the fact
that he's the first Latin American pope ever. Now, if
you wasn't going to any sort of mass, you just
regular church folk. You may be deceived into thinking that
Catholics ain't Christians, but you have to remember up until
the fifteen hundreds, all churches were Catholic. I'm referring to
(01:33):
the Protestant Reformation. But don't think you're not connected to this.
But even if you're not religious at all, you have
to appreciate a person that moves culture as powerfully as
a pope. But this ain't no theology. Course. We talking
about Pope Francis, Pope being sick. He was from Brana,
Saidrez Argentina. He don't come from money. That's one of
the reasons that makes him so unique. He don't really
(01:54):
come from money. That boy name is Jorge, Italian immigrant
family really just built different in relation to the rest
of the other posts that's being before him now. In
the same way that I say I come from the
church and Christian traditions, I come from a black and
urban church. I don't come from you know, trump loving,
evangelical power hungry. I don't come from that. I come
from a different tradition that built underground railroads and fought
(02:16):
for the civil rights movement. Pope Francicas can say the
same thing fratchscan ordered Jesuit. They are not like the
Medici winniperisera power hungry. They built different, which is what
made him so different. That's not to say that just
like my tradition got his problems, his tradition got his problems.
And if we're grading on a curve in relation to
the two posts before him, this man a dog on
(02:37):
black Panther, Pope Benedict, Pope John Paul the Second considered
themselves a return to orthodoxy, very conservative, and a lot
of the reasons, why I believe it or not, people
had been leaving in droves the Catholic Church. I'm just
quoting stat y'all. So you have that high rich, incredibly
stick nef version. But then you have the version of
the desert Mothers and the Desert Fathers. If you get
(02:58):
a chance to read stuff like that, francescan order that
believed in aesthetics and that God's first incarnation of himself
was creation. And if you believe the first way that
God revealed himself as creation, therefore creation is holy, and
all of God's creatures are holy, including the earth. So
you already got somebody by just the strength of his name,
(03:19):
is going to support issues to mitigate climate change, and
is going to advocate for humans despite whatever faith they
got that's already out the name. This the tradition that
builds hospitals. The Claptom group that are the reason people
in jail have civil rights. You know the fact that
they get three meals a day. That's because of William
Wilberford's in the Clapton group, who of course has issues.
(03:39):
But again these are two different tracks. Pope Francis as
a Jesuit, who are known for their embracing of poverty,
supporting of the suffering and the downtrodden, and doing something
called descending into the particulars when it comes to the
things that are right or wrong. For example, is it
wrong to lie? I mean, yeah, it's one of the sins. However,
what if this is not Germany and there's some Jews
(04:01):
you're hiding under your house? Still wrong? They lie? Jesuits
descending into the particular. Now, having said that, so, Pope
Francis in a lot of ways symbolized a return to
in some ways the Catholic Church first Love, which was
service to the poor as an act of worship today God,
So because of that he was seen as too woke
(04:24):
by some of them, but also a lot of people
was like, man, this the faith. I fell in love
with this, the Jesus that I thought I were. Enter Jorge,
normal kid, actually wanted to be a scientist, gets his
epiphany whatever however apocryphal. That story is joins the priesthood.
Through a series of things they win, got time for
becomes the Bishop of Buenos Aires, which is a super
(04:47):
big deal if you've ever been to Argentina or just
understand South America and Catholics. But the picture that made
its rounds because his name started he you know, he
started buzzing around town because there was this picture that
went around of this man riding the bus and it's like, ooh,
he different, you different. So fast forward to twenty thirteen.
(05:08):
Pope Benedict the Second retires, which is something that don't
ever happen. Now, you have to remember the popes have
been Italian for thousands of years, and since Pope Benedict
was such a hall monitored rule following just not embracing modernity.
The idea that Francis followed up after this was a
big deal. This man only spoke Spanish. He refused to
(05:29):
do homilies in Latin because don't nobody speak Latin. Give
the word to the people. You can make your argument
about changing the system from within or burning it down
and starting over. I'm gonna let y'all flesh that out
in the comments. The way that Pope Francis did is
he like, well, if I'm in charge, remember, because he
comes from the bottom and his perception of how the
(05:49):
world works is one that says you should be near
to the broken hearted. So he went incredibly hard for refugees,
for the suffering, and just known for these grand gestures.
He ain't drive around in that Pope mobile. He even
said when he passes that he don't want no big
old orn ages put me in a wooden box. I
(06:09):
ain't with all that get the money to the kids.
He was more a return to the direction that the
church was already on its way to, and John Paul
and Pope Benedict were like two old school big Homie
has not held his tongue throughout most of our refugee crises, Syrian,
our border situation, this war in Gaza. He ain't held
(06:29):
his tongue, which is really cool to hear bare minimum
on the LGPTQ front, but at least he spoke up
and said something. I mean, it's a two thousand year
old institution with one point four billion people. It's really
hard to move an institution that large. You gotta do
small steps. I guess still on that celibate papalc with
all males, he still think if you got a vagina,
(06:50):
you can't be a priest. Now, like I said, grating
on a curve is still something, but he was really
being about what he talked about. One of the quotes
is hypocrisy is to call yourself a Christian and chase
away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is
hungry or is thirsty, tossed out someone who is in
need of my help. If I say I am a
(07:12):
Christian but do these things, I am a hypocrite. Good
for you. Pope Francis in his final homily, there is
something sort of poetic in passing away on Resurrection Sunday
and giving these words. What he says is, I would
like us to renew our hope that peace is possible
(07:32):
from the Holy Sepulcher from the Church of Resurrection, where
this year's Easter is being celebrated. By Catholics and Orthodox
on the same day. May the light of peace radiate
through the Holy Land and the entire world. I express
my closeness to the sufferings of Christians in Palestine and Israel,
and to all the Israeli people and Palestinian people. The
(07:54):
growing climate of anti Semitism throughout the world is worrisome.
Yet in the same I think people of Gaza and
it's Christian community in particular, where the terrible conflict continues
to cause death and destruction and create a dramatic, deplorable
humanitarian situation. I appeal to the warring parties, call the
seas fire, release the hostages, come to the aid of
(08:17):
starring people that aspires for a future of peace. Grading
on a curve, he doing better than almost every popit
in our church, unless you're black. But we're gonna put
that on the side. And now the fun part. JD. Vance.
He the most memorable man on earth. Every time he
touched some break y'all see that man break the dog
(08:39):
Holt Championship trophy man. What the hell is wrong with
this man? Do you know what the story is? The
Pope ain't want to meet him, tell that he had
to send a cardinal out there to be like, tell
that man, just all I'm asking just be a little
you mean as fuck man. He didn't say fuck, He
just like you just mean. I'm just I'm not with it.
Even after meeting with JD's vance, He's called their deportation
(09:04):
plans a disgrace and not Christian, letting y'all know that's
what the man said. Hit go another Pope Burner. What
a great thirst for death, for killing we witness each
day in many conflicts raging in different parts of the world.
How much violence we see directed towards women and children,
how much contempt is stirred up towards the vulnerable, the marginalized,
(09:28):
the migrants. On this day, I would like for us
to hope anew and to revise our trust in others,
including those who are different than ourselves, or whom come
from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of ideas for
all of us, our children of God. Yeah, we lost
a relatively real one. Now who knows where we're going next.
(09:51):
Apparently Pope Francis selected one hundred and eight out of
one hundred and thirty five cardinals, and what he did
this time was he got these cardinals from all over
the world, most of them from conflict regions, areas where
there's high diversity of religious beliefs. Because the pope believes
in DEI Lord, may God grant us another woke pope.
(10:16):
But I'll leave y'all with this, the question every black
person on Earth is asking, or at least every black
person in America is asking right now, who won't do
the body tap in with me?
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