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As I am writing this, the Vatican says the Pope has not yet died. It is strange to follow the contradictory reports - to watch an old man thousands of miles away go through the process of dying. His experience is quite similar to any elderly person dying “of old age” in that his body quite simply started to fail. The last several reports from the Holy See indicate his organs are starting to fail - breathing becoming difficult; heart problems; kidneys failing - this is how all natural deaths proceed. This serves to emphasize a thought I’ve had in my head for several years: The Pope defecates like everbody else. I know it’s crass, but it’s true. As much as Catholics deify him - I believe he’s said to be the closest thing to God on earth - he is still human. And as humans die, so too does the pope pass. In the end, we are all the same.
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Yes, but does he deficate in the woods…? Sorry, that was bad.
In all seriousness, it’s sad to “watch” (whatever watching one can do an ocean and a sea away) an ailing old man die, you’re right to point out that he is still human aside from being a “human diety”, as some say. Growing up Catholic, I feel an odd twinge with what I guess is sadness. I mean, I’m no longer Catholic, but I guess it’s hard to shake the lessons taught to me by the Catholic clergy about the Pope being, well, ‘God’ almost.