Posted on 04/13/2026 4:49:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Hours after Leo XIV became pope in May, Trump confidant and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer posted a brief message on social media. It said: “WOKE MARXIST POPE.”
She was not the only member of the American right to immediately cast Leo as a culture war villain. Steve Bannon, a Catholic and former altar boy, called him the “worst pick for Maga Catholics” and described his election as a victory for “the globalists that run the Curia”.
You might expect Donald Trump’s Maga base to embrace the first American pope. His administration is stacked with officials who speak proudly of their faith, including vice-president JD Vance. But the criticism of Leo only intensified as he took up the mantle of his predecessor, Pope Francis, on the climate crisis, inequality and migration.
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True that, brother.
He was the real deal.
He was an incredibly intelligent man.
If only the country listened to him 23 years ago, when he was going around the world for months shouting his head off to anyone that would listen that an attack on Iraq would be an absolute disaster.
SMH.
I mean, even President Trump at one time called out the war in Iraq as being a really stupid thing to do.
How does the "Greatest Country in the World" end up in these stupid foreign wars where we throw away blood and money for years on end?
The pope is surround by all the silver & gold and a huge wall and guards.
All well and good for civilians, but that is not the responsibility that is laid on the shoulders of our military people.
The difference between a “just war” in your mind and the people you mention seems to be that a just war is one where you’ve FAILED your duty to protect.
IOW, it is morally wrong to protect. It is only OK to react.
But if you read in the Old Testament there is a responsibility to protect. For instance, if you know your bull has gored somebody and you let it out to gore again you are liable for bloodguilt. And there are many similar cases where the principle of anticipating dangers and protecting from them is commanded.
Even on a spiritual level - which is what concerns the Pope - God says if He gives the prophet a warning to speak and they refuse to speak it THEY bear the bloodguilt if the person/society in question remains in their sin and is punished for it.
We don’t just react. We have a positive duty to protect.
My pastor had a great sermon about that text about withholding a warning from God. He said he’d give us a choice as to which sermon he’d give, based on our answer to his question: he asked us whether we held more to the idea of the priesthood of all believers (that we all individually bear responsibility to speak God’s Law and Gospel), or more to the public ministry (that pastors & church leaders bear that responsibility). Most said priesthood of all believers.
So he talked to us about what it means to be a prophet - to get close enough to people in our sphere of influence to know their struggles and sins and to say to them the things they don’t want to hear. He said we all need to have somebody we are a prophet for, and somebody who is a prophet for us. And he said it might cost us the relationship.
After we were all thoroughly squirming he asked if anybody wanted to change their vote. lol. So then he gave us the other sermon. He said there are some people whose relationship we are just not able to risk. That is where it is a great comfort that we have PUBLIC PROPHETS. In the role of public proclaimer pastors and spiritual leaders can give general warnings for people to hear, that they might not be able to accept from anybody else. Those are the times when a person feels that the pastor is preaching right at them, with them in mind - saying what nobody else will say to their face. The purpose is to bring them to repentance so they can be restored and healed.
A seminar leader once talked about the 3 R’s of faith, that we need to train our kids in: Righteousness (how we are eternally saved), Resistance (How to withstand the devil’s lies), and Recovery (How to be lifted & restored by God when - not if - we fail) All of those things are the job of both individuals and of leaders. But when individuals can’t say what needs to be said because the relationship can’t handle it, that is when the church as a whole and its leaders need to step up and say the hard things.
That is the job of the Pope, for all the world’s Catholics.
Not to opine about what our foreign policy or war plans should be. Not to say we don’t need justice or even that justice is anti-Christian because it’s not “nice”. Not to say sin doesn’t matter because God loves you anyway - any more than a doctor would say cancer doesn’t matter or a counselor would say anorexia or schizophrenia don’t matter. Etc.
It seems to me that Pope Leo doesn’t understand what his call is. And that saddens me, because a messed-up, post-modern world needs clarity that they’re not getting. And souls will be lost because of it.
How does it happen? Because we put bandaids on malignant cancer.
If we really wanted peace in Israel or the world we have to either convert Hezbollah to not be Hezbollah any more, or we have to eliminate them.
Trump is really good at whittling down to the crux of the matter. And those who like the status quo hate him for it.
If you don’t like the “forever wars” you have to be willing to get to the heart of the matter AND CHANGE IT.
Iran and her proxies are nothing but bad news. Either we effectively contain them or eliminate them. Or we let them brawl & start the fight back up whenever peace threatens to break out.
President Trump should handle this one with care and a bit of humility. There is nothing to gain in being right in the argument with Pope Leo.
Leftist are not going to listen. Rather making your point while respecting his office is the safest course.
The world desperately needs spiritual leaders NOT more political Marxist bullsh*tter elites.
The Pope visited [an] Algeria mosque today.
Taking his shoes off to wander around.
Algeria was a Christian nation until Islam conquered through force, just like Europe now.
Christians have no rights now there.
Pope Leo hasn't even bothered visiting suffering Nigerian Christians.Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) April 13, 2026
Re “… How does the “Greatest Country in the World” end up in these stupid foreign wars…”
I’d imagine it’s because a certain mindset insists that we not be independent and take care of ourselves first, and that we have to the global piggy bank, global policeman, global sugardaddy, etc.
That ties us into everybody else’s problems.
The last few Popes have been disasters. Seems to codify the Catholic Church of late.
The Pope is inciting a culture war.
He will get it.
And at that time bears didn't break down the doors of outside entrance rest rooms of gas stations to use them.
The story going around when Francis was elected was that he was chosen to bring in the new Church members in Third World countries including his South America region.
Western trend of Catholic mass attendance even in Ireland was rapidly declining. Now the worldwide figures for Catholics have been up only due to the US and Europe figures being overcome by the increases in the other regions.
As he grew older, Pope Francis chose hundreds of officials who backed him and he set up a trusted group of finalists to replace him which included Leo as a comfortably woke leftist.
You protest soldiers being effective, as well as hitting what they aim at? And still complain about collateral?
Even the IRGC and government supporters and allies have faith that we are attacking only military targets and doing so ably, or else they would not be having their own large protests in the streets. There are even videos of some of the government leaders giving interviews as bombs blow up military targets nearby, and just carrying on with the interview after ducking for a moment.
I think it’s dangerous when we as human beings — especially if we identify as Christians — get numbed to statistics of dead children yes. Very, very, very slippery slope.
^ I don't believe that Iran was an imminent physical threat to the United States. Only that it was at a weakened juncture that some saw as fit to take advantage of. I don't believe that playing "hardball" with them always has to include war.
Even on a spiritual level - which is what concerns the Pope - God says if He gives the prophet a warning to speak and they refuse to speak it THEY bear the bloodguilt
^The pope is speaking on behalf of the innocent people in Lebanon - especially Christians, Catholic Christians - who are interspersed among Hezbollah targets through no fault of their own.
The purpose is to bring them to repentance so they can be restored and healed.
^ I pray that for Israel also.
But when individuals can’t say what needs to be said because the relationship can’t handle it, that is when the church as a whole and its leaders need to step up and say the hard things.
^ President Trump was arguably under tremendous pressure to give into the forces of war. I don't believe he is at peace with it and he has since demonstrated much more restraint despite all his memes and commentary. Trump has since been rebuked not just by pope, but by members of his own base who are willing to risk their reputation and their standing with him to be critical of his choices. They are the ones saying "the hard things"the President doesn't want to hear and bearing the cost...
It seems to me that Pope Leo doesn’t understand what his call is.
^ I hardly compliment Pope Leo, but on this - his calling is crystal clear. I praise God for his voice. And I know from Trump's response, that the pope's challenge has been highly effectual...Inconveniencing in the right ways.
I pray for God to work things out for the good of the people of Iran and their future in Jesus' name.
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