I have a respect for the Pope, the most recent ones, not the Catholic church. I also wish the Pope would take stronger action against the abuses but I sense there is a lot of power behind the Pope, which is where the problems are.
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Mike Tomlin: 4 Popes, 0 losing seasons.
Third Pope since the Cowgirls last NFC Championship game
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He’s from where I grew up and he went to high school where I live now.
Not that I could ever relate to a pope, but this is as close as it will get.
Here’s what Heather Cox Richardson had to say about the new Pope. More info on his criticisms of Trump/Vance:
"Prevost’s choice of the name Leo invokes the principles of both Leo XIII and his predecessor, Pope Francis. In his own lifetime he has aligned himself with many of Francis’s social reforms, and his election appears to be a rejection of hard-line right-wing Catholics in the U.S. and elsewhere who have used their religion to support far-right politics.
In the U.S., Vice-President J.D. Vance is one of those hard-line right-wing Catholics. Shortly after taking office in January, Vance began to talk of the concept of ordo amoris , or “order of love,” articulated by Catholic St. Augustine, claiming it justified the MAGA emphasis on family and tribalism and suggesting it justified the mass expulsion of migrants.
Vance told Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel, “[Y]ou love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that.” When right-wing influencer Jack Posobiec, who is Catholic, posted Vance’s interview approvingly, Vance added: “Just google ‘ordo amoris .’ Aside from that, the idea that there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense.”
On February 10, Pope Francis responded in a letter to American bishops. He corrected Vance’s assertion as a false interpretation of Catholic theology. “Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity,” he wrote. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups…. The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by…meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
“[W]orrying about personal, community or national identity, apart from these considerations, easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth,” Pope Francis wrote. He acknowledged “the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival,” but defended the fundamental dignity of every human being and the fundamental rights of migrants, noting that the “rightly formed conscience” would disagree with any program that “identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.” He continued: “I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.”
The next day, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who said he was “a lifelong Catholic,” told reporters at the White House, “I’ve got harsh words for the Pope…. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us.”
Cardinal Prevost was close to Pope Francis, and during this controversy he posted on X after Vance’s assertion but before Pope Francis’s answer: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” After the pope published his letter, Prevost reposted it with the comment: “Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration.”
On April 14, Prevost reposted: “As Trump & [Salvadoran president Nayib] Bukele use Oval to [laugh at] Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident [Kilmar Abrego Garcia], once an undoc[ument]ed Salvadorean himself, [Bishop Evelio Menjivar] asks, ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?’”
The new Pope Leo XIV greeted the world today in Italian and Spanish as he thanked Pope Francis and the other cardinals, and called for the church to “be a missionary Church, building bridges, dialogue, always open to receiving with open arms for everyone…, open to all, to all who need our charity, our presence, dialogue, love…, especially to those who are suffering.”
As an American-born pope in the model of Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV might be able to appeal to American far-right Catholics and bring them back into the fold. But today, MAGAs responded to the new pope with fury. Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, who is close to Trump, called Pope Leo “another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.” Influencer Charlie Kirk suggested he was an “[o]pen borders globalist installed to counter Trump.” "
Thanks, interesting read.
Generally speaking, the guy who willingly, knowingly spread lies to foment fear and hate toward immigrant populations who came to the United States legally to escape war and death in Haiti, to advance his own political career, can shut the fuck up about his opinions on religion. And I mean all the way.
Fucking hell these people are awful. I wish there were a hell.
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D’Kid has not been to Mass since her Confirmation 10+ years ago (not counting funerals), so that’s saying something
he has criticized vance and trump because hispanics are a strong brand in catholic america. white catholics are dying off, most of them dont’ go to church.
yeah, i figured as much.
I don’t disagree with this
But I also hope he criticized Vance and Trump simply because the treatment of migrants has been inhumane and goes against the teachings of Jesus (love thy neighbor)
He criticized VP Vance because Vance’s interpretation of scripture was comically stupid, and because the Pope spent much of his career in ministry and missionary work to exactly the kind of people the MAGA folks are keen on demonizing.
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That’s just asking for a lightning bolt from above.
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Hey man when it’s your time, it’s your time.
He went to Villanova and graduated in 1977
He’s a Chicago White Sox fan, so I’m guessing he attended a Phillies game or two, somewhere in the 1973-77 era, to see some baseball. They didn’t have inter-league play back then, so he would’ve loved to see the Phils crack on the Cubs
Unless he had a friend at 'Nova with season tickets, he’s going to the Box Office on game day and getting what’s available
“What’s available” is gonna be in the 700 Level at The Vet
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
The New Pope has already seen HELL
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Imagine if he went to an Eagles game
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Same place, same people, different weather
So I guess I should start a whopper. We were married in '75 at the Villanova Chapel. I wonder if Pope Leo was our altar boy. Any way of checking? First Pope younger than me. God you know you’re old when.