[Barnacle]

There is plenty of evidence. It’s called history. Check it out.

If you’re going to call the Pope a socialist, then call Jesus one too.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I did check it out. He was an actor during WWII, and he managed to climb up through the hierarchy during the cold war without getting arrested. Got along well with the regimes he lived under during decades of Cold War.

He became Pope, and suddenly is credited with doing miraculous things in Poland with no evidence to back it up - and reporters tracking it have run against a stone wall. I have no doubt that he has some sense of Polish nationalism, but aside from that, nothing seems out of the ordinary.

There is, however, the level of scorn he heaps upon the nation that he relies upon as his wallet, and a record of inaction against those clerics who support autocratic, brutal dictatorships, as well as clerics who create scandal here.