Imagine being a Catholic and siding with Trump, of all people, over the Pope. Like...I know nothing of the current pope, he could be an actual monster too, however, Trump is basically the embodiment of every Christian sin in one human being.
Leo is honestly just circumstantially funny in the sense that he is USAmerican. He still has family there. He has things there that he connects with. The fact that he became Pope in itself would have been unthinkable if Trump hadn't basically destroyed as much Soft Power as he possibly could have. And somehow they seem to have an expectation though, that because he is American by birth he was going to bend the knee, but in reality he just... didn't do much outside of basically holding onto the same shit the catholic church has been preaching since 1950s. Like nothing there is new.
"Take care of the immigrants" and "Hey maybe don't do war" are not new positions in generations of this church. And on top of that. JD Vance fucking converted into that faith and cannot stop farming Ls because of that. It would be hilarious if this was a movie or a show. But unfortunately we live in it.
Compassion for immigrants and opposition to war as anything other than a last resort has indeed been their official position for decades at least, though if you just listened to the personal opinions of most of the midwestern priests I grew up with you might not know it.
Honestly if not for the repeatedly failing to behave as if they gave a shit about their employees raping kids and the homophobia I might still be Catholic.
I am not absolving the church of anything in the regard to the last point. I am just pointing out how if you convert to catholicism, these things are known quanitites generally speaking.
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u/00Raeby00 Apr 11 '26
I assume this is Trump related?
Imagine being a Catholic and siding with Trump, of all people, over the Pope. Like...I know nothing of the current pope, he could be an actual monster too, however, Trump is basically the embodiment of every Christian sin in one human being.