The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy

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• Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m having a hard time understanding why the fuck this matters so much. You’d think they were discussing critical, top secret information. But, nope…just who the next Pope is going to be.

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    advocating for privacy means you don’t get to chose which subjects are important and which ones are not

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don’t.

      People would be more likely to use it that way.

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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Setting aside the financial management of the church, it’s one of the largest organizations in the world which tells people what the purpose of life is. Its members believe the person they’re selecting has authority from God to say what actions are right and wrong.

    While I don’t personally believe that, hard not to see it’s a position of significant power and people have an interest in knowing or influencing the outcome.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To put this into context, there are approximately 1.5 billion Catholics in the world. Thats a little under five times the population of the United States, or roughly 1/5 of the planets population.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …just who the next Pope is going to be.

    Right, just one of the most powerful religious positions in the world overseeing a vast real estate empire worth billions to trillions of dollars, who will be appointed for life, and who cannot be questioned due to having the authority of God himself. Not important or interesting at all. /s

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      just one of the most powerful religious positions in the world

      I struggle to think of any more powerful. The pope is also the head of an actual city-state

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Total assets €5.38 billion (2023)

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Institute_for_the_Works_of_Rel…

    In total, APSA valued the total patrimony managed by the Vatican at over 2.9 billion dollars (2.7 billion euros) in 2023.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Administration_of_the_Patrimon…

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s actually far less than I expected.

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