• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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    Just slingin’ excommunications back and forth, calling each other anti-Pope, finally reconciled through their mutual love of burning witches…. Welcome to the new Dark Ages.

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      They can’t really communicate much publicly, even calling each other on the phone all the time would raise suspicions in their own church, increasing the odds that they get deposed. They are both relatively tech savvy, but not savvy enough to encrypt their communications without help, so they agree to communicate in code on a public Catholic RP website.

      Roleplaying as two cardinals meeting at a conclave in Rome, they discuss matters of the day and how the church (they both RP as Roman Catholics, but the Western Pope plays a cardinal sympathetic to the Western Church) should should react to it.

      The season 1 finale ends with a shot of a comment on one of their posts:

      This lady thinks you guys are the popes.
      
      https://www.jezebel.com/post/am-i-crazy-or-are-these-guys-the-popes/