Search results for tag #popeleo
"To the tens of thousands who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said: 'This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.' Quoting scripture, the pope added, 'Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: Your hands are full of blood.'”
~ Joan Vennochi
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/30/opinion/trump-war-pope-religion/
If Trump should disappear in a puff of smoke, you'll know why now.....
Pope Leo to host exorcist summit at the Vatican over fears of worldwide surge in Satanism
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #popeleo
"Pope Leo on Sunday said death and suffering caused by the war in the Middle East are a 'scandal to the whole human family,' renewing his plea for an immediate ceasefire.
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its fourth week, the first U.S. pope said that he continues to follow with 'dismay' the situation in the Middle East and in other regions torn apart by war and violence."
~ Reuters
#Trump #Iran #war #PopeLeo #morality #violence #death #destruction
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"Unlike FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Pope Leo warned that 'the media must guard against the risk of becoing propaganda so as not to become a mouthpiece for those in power.'”
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"In a rebuke to Trump’s flippant attitude toward war and anti-media tantrums, the pontiff implored news outlets 'to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a video game.'"
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"Trump may regret shredding America’s moral stature, a historically indispensable part of our influence around the world. He has eradicated the difference between the U.S. and other rogue regimes that invade neighbors and kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Pope Leo XIV has been more vocal with each passing day."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"The appearance of Thiel on the Vatican’s doorstep has raised eyebrows, given the tensions between Thiel’s thinking and that of Pope Leo XIV. ...
So far, two Catholic institutions have distanced themselves from Thiel’s Rome lectures. The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum, denied initial reports that it would host the lectures."
~ Christopher Lamb
#PeterThiel #Rome #antichrist #democracy #PopeLeo
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
"The Angelicum is where the Rev. Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo, studied for a doctoral thesis in the 1980s.
The Thiel lectures are being organized jointly by the Vincenzo Gioberti Cultural Association — which aims to renew Italian political culture and make 'the restoration of Catholicism as the cornerstone of national identity' — and the Cluny Institute, which is based at the Catholic University of America in Washington."
“'The Catholic University of America is not sponsoring or hosting an event featuring Peter Thiel this month in Rome,' a spokesperson for the university told CNN. 'The Cluny Project is an independent initiative incubated at the University.'”
"Responding to his arrival in Italy, Il Messaggero quotes an essay by the Catholic theologian Father Paolo Benanti, originally published in Le Grand Continent, in which the priest critiqued the self-styled prophet’s bleak message as depicting a society 'incapable of self-government' in which 'the only alternative to apocalypse would be a technocratic order imposed by an elite of rulers.'”
~ Joe Sommerlad
"He continued: 'In this vision, democracy understood as the self-government of equal citizens is already dead – and all that remains, in the darkness of a data center, is the clinical management of its corpse.'
Benanti considers Thiel’s speaking tour 'a prolonged act of heresy against liberal consensus: a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence,' Il Messaggero concludes."
"Father Benanti said that Mr. Thiel — a venture capitalist who played major roles in the formation of PayPal; Facebook; and Palantir, a software and data-analysis firm — was attempting to accelerate the decline of liberal democracy to make it easier for his companies to operate."
~ Elisabetta Povoledo
#PeterThiel #Rome #antichrist #democracy #PopeLeo
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/peter-thiel-rome-antichrist-catholics.html
"Peter Thiel, the U.S. billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of President Donald Trump, launched on Sunday a series of closed-door lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing scrutiny from Catholic commentators."
~ Crispian Balmer
"The invitation-only conference, which runs until Wednesday, is not open to the press and its venue has not been publicly disclosed. Organisers quoted in the media say participants are drawn from academia, technology and religious circles."
Seems to me Peter Thiel doesn't need to circumnavigate the globe to find the antiChrist--he need only visit a mirror.
Trumpy Billionaire Challenges Pope With Secret Antichrist Meetings Near Vatican
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-billionaire-challenges-pope-with-secret-antichrist-meetings-near-vatican/
#PeterThiel #AntiChrist #TaxBillionaires #PopeLeo #Woke #USPol
"Pope Leo suggested on Friday that Christian political leaders who start wars should go to confession & assess whether they are following the teachings of Jesus, without naming any specific leaders or conflicts.
'Do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility & courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?' the pope asked in a speech to priests."
~ Joshua McElwee
"The growing response by Catholic leaders to the deliberate and persistent government cruelty imposed on the most vulnerable in our society represents a new moment for U.S. Catholics. It is a moment fraught with no small measure of risk."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"It is a very different moment in U.S. Catholic experience when the cardinal archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich, celebrates an outdoor Ash Wednesday Mass attended by 3,000 people in solidarity with immigrants being detained, a direct condemnation of U.S. government policy."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"It is a different moment when Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, says it was a priority to celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass inside an immigrant detention center before the usual Mass of that day at the cathedral."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"The record is accumulating. Other bishops and priests, joined by hundreds of laity, march to detention centers and issue pastoral statements decrying the activity of a paramilitary force, masked and accountable to no one, that is terrorizing whole cities on orders from the highest levels of government."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"No script, no precedent, exists for what we are seeing. ... What we are seeing is a genuinely prophetic answer to a call from the heart of the Gospel."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"So apparently, J.D. Vance flew to the Vatican to invite Pope Leo to the United States for America’s 250th birthday, but he declined and will instead spend July 4th standing with migrants. As a practicing Catholic, I can’t put into words how meaningful it is to watch the Church meet this moment with an American as pope."
~ Mike Nellis
Asked about Pope Leo's refusal to join Trump's "Board of Peace," his press secretary Karoline Leavitt, educated from grade school through college in Catholic schools and known for wearing an ostentatious cross while prevaricating boldly, stated,
"It’s deeply unfortunate. I don’t think that peace should be partisan, or political, or controversial."
#Trump #PopeLeo #KarolineLeavitt #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/leavitt-rips-pope-for-declining-board-of-peace-invite/
"Of course, the administration wants all those who were invited to join the Board of Peace to join, because, again, the Board of Peace is overseeing the reconstruction of a territory that has been plagued with violence, with bloodshed, poverty for far too long. This president has a very bold and ambitious plan and vision to rebuild and reconstruct Gaza, which is well underway, because of the Board of Peace.”
#Trump #PopeLeo #KarolineLeavitt #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"So many people are noticing now the division in the Catholic Church. They are starting to realize that the architects of Project 2025, [are] a lot of far-right Catholics. And also what we're dealing with here is a Pope, a Holy Father, who is not complying with the cool kids. And he doesn't want to sit at their table, okay?"
~ Shannon Vavich
#Trump #PopeLeo #KarolineLeavitt #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://shannonvavich.substack.com/p/live-with-gutter-catholic-daily-digest-e95
"Pope Leo XIV has turned down Donald Trump’s invitation to join his so-called 'Board of Peace', a senior Vatican official said.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, told reporters on Tuesday that the Pope had a number of concerns about the initiative and that he 'will not participate' as a result."
~ Maroosha Muzaffar
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
His emphasis on face and voice is good.
"A new era of religious leadership in the U.S Catholic Church has dawned — driven by the immoral and destructive extremes of the Trump administration. ... No longer can Catholics within the administration's apparatus or supporters of it twist reality to accommodate policies clearly at odds with Catholic social teaching and the heart of the Christian Scriptures."
~ National Catholic Reporter
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power
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https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-church-speaks-out-new-era-has-dawned
"We have reached, in our national life, that point of no escaping.
There is no hiding from the inhumanity in depriving the neediest abroad of life-saving medicine and food. There is no longer turning away from the brutal treatment of not only immigrants but also U.S. citizens at the hands of a paramilitary force accountable to no one."
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
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"There is no rationale that any longer justifies a self-indulgent president and his minions lusting after an irrational and destructive hemispheric hegemony.
We have asked previously what it means to be a Catholic in this country at this moment. The American hierarchy has begun to answer the question and it cannot be surprising that the answer is more challenging than comforting."
#Trump #Catholic #PopeLeo #morality #power #immigrants #ICE #food #healthcare #war
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"In this effort [to resist the fascism of the Trump regime], no one should underestimate the power of the Christian churches and interfaith groups in urging their flocks to action and exposing the regime’s immorality. From Presbyterian Rev. David Black (shot in the head with pepper bullets while praying in Chicago) to Pope Leo (who recently denounced Trump’s imperialism:"
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #fascism #resistance #churches #DavidBlack #PopeLeo
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-gets-worse-but-the-blowback
“'The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined'), we have seen religious leaders rise to the occasion — just as some did at critical junctures during the civil rights movement (in contrast to the bulk of white Southern evangelicals)."
"When resistance becomes a moral and religious crusade, the amoral, vicious, and Trump-idolaters are flummoxed."
And it's precisely because of the attempt of Trump and MAGA to wrap themselves in piety and religion that the pushback of religious leaders is critically important — and the stolidity of knee-jerk hostility to that pushback among progressives hostile to religion is so politically ill-considered.
"Today three top American Catholic cardinals, Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, issued a joint statement warning the Trump administration that its military action in Venezuela, threats against Greenland, and cuts to foreign aid risk bringing vast suffering to the world."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Nicole Winfield and Giovanna Dell’Orto of the Associated Press reported that the cardinals spoke up after a meeting at the Vatican in which several fellow cardinals expressed alarm about the administration’s actions. Cupich said that when the U.S. can be portrayed as saying '"might makes right"—that’s a troublesome development. There’s the rule of law that should be followed.'”
"The Catholic Archbishop of the US military [Timothy Broglio] said that soldiers who refused to participate in an invasion of Greenland 'would be in good conscience to do so.'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/republicans-must-stage-an-intervention
"On Sunday, the Archbishop told the BBC 'Sunday' show that if the Trump administration ordered the military to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory, he was worried that U.S. service members 'could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something that’s morally questionable.'”
"Broglio also noted that while it would be difficult for a soldier or Marine to disobey such an order, he or she 'would be in good conscience to do so.'”
"With President Donald Trump ratcheting up economic threats against U.S. allies as part of his campaign to take Greenland, after the administration's comments that military action is 'always an option,' U.S. bishops are offering stark warnings against the administration's recent foreign policy actions and threats, including a rare joint statement from three senior church leaders.
~ Michael O'Loughlin
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-break-further-trump-time-foreign-policy
"On Monday, Jan. 19, three Catholic cardinals — Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey — amplified an address given Jan. 9 by Pope Leo XIV to the Vatican's diplomatic corps."
"'We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy,' said the cardinals, each of whom were staunch allies of Pope Francis and were present at the conclave that elected Leo."
I’m finding it odd that I am agreeing so much with the #Christian #Church these days.
Top #Catholic Clerics Denounce #US #ForeignPolicy
Citing recent events in #Venezuela, #Ukraine & #Greenland, 3 cardinals said their statement was inspired by #PopeLeo.
#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #alliances #NewWorldOrder #law #Constitution #democracy #Congress #DerelictionOfDuty #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/catholics-trump-archbishops.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
David Gibson argues that "Trump's amoral world meets its match in Pope Leo":
"Leo is not looking for a fight with Mr. Trump; he is looking past him. When he challenges the president’s policies, he does so as an American-born pope recalling the American-inspired system that Mr. Trump is dismantling — one that values statesmanship over gamesmanship, the common good over national conquest and common decency over jingoist bullying."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/opinion/pope-leo-trump-world-order-peace.html
"Leo obviously has no hard power to deploy and his is not a nostalgia for a durable yet flawed Pax Americana. But his voice, with its American accent, is filling a void. ...
Catholicism has a knack for preserving the best of the past to help seed a better future. Today’s Leo may be the surest guardian of a legacy that America, and the world, will desperately need."
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "JD Vance's comments💔justifying the death of #ReneeGood are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith.🚨His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Since there doesn't appear to be anyone with a moral compass inside Trump's⭕, it's important to amplify influential orgs that've "some" history of⚡defending #HumanRights, other #rights, & #morality.
#Murder #DHS #PopeLeo #USPol
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Yesterday on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Trump-led attack on the US capitol, many Christian communities were celebrating the feast of the Epiphany. News report about an Epiphany sermon Pope Leo gave in Rome are capturing attention because of what Leo said about current events.
Matthew Robinson writes,
"Pope Leo XIV has marked the end of the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year by denouncing anti-foreigner attitudes and consumerism."
#PopeLeo #Trump #migrants #EconomicElites
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https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-denounces-anti-foreigner-action-xenophobia-consumerism-11314295
"Speaking to tens of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican on Tuesday, Leo said the Jubilee, a holy year of renewal and forgiveness in the Catholic church, had encouraged Christians to reject 'the flattery and seduction of those in power' and to welcome strangers."
#PopeLeo #Trump #migrants #immigrants #EconomicElites #EthicofWelcome
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As Christopher Hale says, Leo's sermon called on Christians to "resist tyrants, welcome strangers, reject war, serve the poor."
"Pope Leo also drew a sharp contrast between the joy of those who seek Christ and the fear of those who cling to power. He recounted how King Herod reacted to Jesus’s birth with lies and violence, desperate to control what he could not understand."
#PopeLeo #Trump #migrants #immigrants #EconomicElites #EthicofWelcome
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/resist-tyrants-welcome-strangers
"A Catholic bishop publicly apologizing to LGBTQ people is a profound rarity; it showed the kind of shepherd Pope Leo wants to elevate.
Bejarano has shown the same compassion on another front: immigrants and refugees.
On World Refugee Day this year, he joined a group of clergy at a San Diego immigration court to support migrants facing deportation."
In an op-ed piece published in The Guardian in the last week of November, Simon Tisdall states that Pope Leo and US Catholics responsive to his leadership have unique potential to "tame" Trump and his rabid anti-immigrant policies. In a statement published yesterday focuses on three faith leaders who offer counterwitness when many US white Christians have bought wholly into white Christian nationalism. One of these leaders is Pope Leo.
Recent appointments Pope Leo is making in the US Catholic church suggest that these interpretations of his potential to challenge Trump have strong merit.
Kate Hoeting writes:
"In a Christmas gift for all justice-loving Catholics, Pope Leo XIV has accepted Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s resignation. Dolan’s retirement as Archbishop of New York is not unusual —"
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism #CardinalDolan
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https://theoverreachmonitor.substack.com/p/overreach-weekly-who-is-nycs-new
"canon law requires bishops to submit their resignation at age 75. However, the successor Pope Leo named is somewhat of a dark horse: Bishop Ronald Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.
What kinds of moral, pastoral, and political commitments might Bishop Hicks bring to his new role? It’s not clear, but this change will likely be an improvement for those in the Archdiocese of New York. Cardinal Dolan is known for his outspoken right-wing extremism."
"Pope Leo is replacing pro–Trump Cardinal Timothy Dolan as New York’s archbishop in a major shake-up of the Catholic Church in the U.S.
The first-ever American pope has accepted the resignation of Dolan, a prominent figure known for engaging in culture wars, and has appointed the relatively unknown Illinois-based Bishop Ronald Hicks in his place."
~ Ewan Palmer
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism #CardinalDolan
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"Dolan has earned a reputation as an eager Trump supporter, with regular appearances on the pro-Trump Fox News and prayer appearances at both of the president’s inaugurations. He appeared alongside Trump at a Catholic Charities fundraiser last year, and referred to slain MAGA commentator Charlie Kirk as 'a modern-day Saint Paul' in the wake of his September killing."
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism #CardinalDolan
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"Trump, likewise, is such a fan of Dolan that he appeared to suggest the cardinal could be the next pope following the death of Pope Francis in April, though he also floated himself as a candidate to head the Catholic Church."
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism #CardinalDolan
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"With the retirement of Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York, the Roman Catholic Church is losing one of its most anti-LGBTQ+ American leaders.
Here’s a look at Dolan’s worst moments as leader of the second-largest archdiocese in the U.S. and what to expect from his successor."
~ Trudy Ring
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism #CardinalDolan
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https://www.advocate.com/news/homophobe-timothy-dolan-record-successor
Christopher Hale reports on the man Pope Leo has just made bishop of Monterey, California, Ramón Bejarano:
"Bishop Bejarano made headlines in 2024 when he presided over an 'All Are Welcome' Mass for the LGBTQ community.
'I apologize for the pain and distress that I and the Church have caused… because we have told them that they are not valued and not worthy of the love of God,' he told the congregation."
#PopeLeo #Trump #BishopRamónBejarano
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-names-lgbtq-affirming-pro
"Pope Leo, Rev. Budde, and Pastor Bryant showed us that true faith leaders do not oppress or demonize others and certainly do not deify a noxious politician (one whose conduct and rhetoric revolts even other MAGA pols)."
#Trump #MAGA #PopeLeo #MariannBudde #JamalBryant #FaithLeaders
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Jennifer Rubin points to three faith leaders who, in a dismal time in which many American Christians are actively promoting cruelty, exclusion, hatred, and outright evil, "stood out this year as undaunted proponents of decency, empathy, and social responsibility." The three leaders she names are Pope Leo, Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, and Pastor Jamal Bryant:
If you are into Canadian politics, even a little.. and/or into "Press Gallery" type political jokes. This 9 minutes flies by with Interim NDP Leader Don Davies. No holding back, self-deprecating, hilarious, slightly vulgar and absolutely brutal.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #abpoli #BQ #NDP #LPC #CPC #CBC #PopeLeo #TheAmericanFascist #ElbowsUp #Hockey #Carney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfwyHooL8I
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#PopeLeo should direct that this be the nativity displayed by every Catholic parish in America, until the #TurdReich is defeated.
By now you have probably seen the church nativity scenes with protest art about #ICE-- Jesus abducted, Mary and Joseph in cages, centurion-like ICE agents threatening the Holy Family, etc.
ICE is terrified of protest art and demanded a Catholic parish in Massachusetts take their protest Nativity scene down. RWNJ media also attacked the priest, showing how much the fascists fear the churches that stand on the side of right.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/ice-was-here-pope-leo-inspired-nativity
https://xcancel.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1998153694345588917#m
Pope Leo criticizes those Catholics who believe that Muslim mass-immigration to Europe is a threat to the West’s Christian identity:
He says that Lebanon is an example of how “Christians and Muslims can live together and be friends”
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #PopeLeo
"Pope Leo XIV has a clear message for the West: stop fear mongering about Islam.
During a press conference on his flight home from a landmark visit to Turkey and Lebanon this week, the American-born pope urged Christians in Europe and the United States to reconsider their attitudes toward Muslims."
~ Christopher Hale
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #Muslims #Islamophobia #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-to-maga-christians-must
"Anti-Muslim sentiment, Leo observed, is 'oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who may be from another country, another religion, another race.'
In other words, the pope bluntly tied Islamophobia to the agenda of nationalist agitators who exploit fear of the 'other.'”
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigrants #Muslims #Islamophobia #WhiteSupremacy
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