By justina colmena ~biz in vice — 22 Apr 2025

More smoke and mirrors at the Vatican

Too many secrets and locked apartments with hidden rooms and passageways

The usual ceremony wasn't conducted for the election of this pope because the previous pope had fled the throne and vacated his seat without official explanation. This time there are special IUPAC chemicals for producing colored smoke from the burning ballots cast by cardinals who convoked a conclave.

A lot of details emerged about the medical treatments and official cause of death, but obviously much is being withheld from the general public.

Odd that nominally Protestant British royals would visit or associate so closely with Catholic popes and prelates or attend their funerals. (We're not looking at weddings or baptisms arising from that sort of "celibacy" or single men's lifestyle which has taken root throughout the ruling hierarchy of that particular establishment of religion.)

It would appear from such official visits that England, Scotland and Wales have all officially reverted to Catholicism along with Ireland. And those are among many Western countries where Protestants or other non-Catholics are simply not welcome anymore, despite hundreds of years of Anglo–Saxon Protestant tradition. Which is of course exactly the reason why the "Puritans" or "Pilgrims" left Britain for America and settled New England in the first place.