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Posted on 10/02/2025 6:10:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
On Tuesday evening, the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV spoke out against anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bellicose rhetoric.
At an unusual gathering of military leaders earlier that day, Hegseth had told the top brass to be “prepared for war, not for defense,” while espousing the use of “overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy” and promising to “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country.”
Speaking to reporters in Italian, Leo called Hegseth’s rhetoric “worrying,” per the Catholic News Agency, “because it shows each time an increase in tensions.” Citing Hegseth’s change in job title from “secretary of defense” to “secretary of war,” the pope said, “Let’s hope it is only a way of speaking.”
The pontiff also discussed Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to present a lifetime achievement award to outgoing Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who represents Illinois and is a Catholic, but whose support of legal abortion stirred conservative backlash against his announced honor. (Durbin ultimately opted to decline the award.)
“I’m not terribly familiar with the particular case,” Leo said in English when asked about the controversy. “I think that it’s very important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I’m not mistaken, 40 years of service in the United States Senate.”
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Once A FRUIT.....
Francis II. If he wants to talk politics, he should run for office.
I care as much about this as I do about Hegseth’s stance on the Latin Mass.
Leo can kiss my po-po. Just another heretic in satan’s Bergoglio mold.
Do lay Catholics ever get to take control over their church?
Please God, give this Pope a brain to think with. It’s not anti-immigrant sentiment Leo, it’s anti illegal alien sentiment, and the crimes they commit. We’re not against people coming here legally, but we are against people jumping ahead of the line, walking on the backs of those in front of them, and deliberately breaking our immigration laws to come here. If a man of the cloth can’t make that easy distinction, then he hasn’t the right to be sitting in the Vatican as the head of the Catholic Church.
Seems logical that being and acting weak invites violence from bad people.
The only way to avoid what appears to be a coming war, or even a world war, is to look like a vicious monster rather than a hollow pushover.
I bet he really chewed out the democrats for promoting abortion, right?
Getting foreigners into America has always been a top priority for the Catholic church.
Malachy was right.
Another friggin’ Dopey Pope. A real jerk.
Francis II<<<
His middle name could be in quotes:
Pope Leo XIV[a] (born Robert Francis Prevost,[b][c] September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States... (Wiki)
How many miggies does the Pope have stored and is feeding at his house? Surely he’s using his own money.
What do you think war is Leo?
Sic vis pacem, para bellum.
“Francis II. If he wants to talk politics, he should run for office.”
Amen. Americans elected Trump to be their sokesman, not the Pope. Let him go back to the businsess of saving souls, not parading his heresies under the guise of Papal authority.
I guess I will go back to rolling my eyes during Mass when the faithful pray for Pope Leo and Archbishop (insert name here).
No more money. Not one penny.
3 Popes were laymen .
Dear Holy Father..... Please deal with heavenly matters and leave termporal matters - of not a spiritual matter - to earthly politicians.
Trump needs to sue him.
It’s worked every other time he’s tried it.
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