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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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Go to hell Pope. Worry about your sexual pervert priests.
Leo is not only not the pope, he’s not Catholic. If he were he’d be preaching Christ crucified, Heaven, Hell, death and judgement like a true vicar of Christ would. He’s a modernist infiltrator. The abomination of desolation is upon us.
“Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 3 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. 5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.”
Some things never change
Pope Leo seems to fancy himself as a World Politician. Francis calm clse to accepting abortion as no sin and normalizing all sorts of sexual perversions. Is Leo building on that?
“i’m not terribly familiar with the particular case.” BS Pope Leo is from Chicago, he knows Cupich and Durbin quite well, thank you. What are we supposed to think when the Pope lies like this?
There’s a reason for this…remittances to the Vatican are greater from wealthier countries. Put a lot of Catholics from Latin America and Africa into the USA and the Vatican coffers get fatter because they earn more money than they did in their homelands.
More disappointing by the day.
Bro never heard of St. Augustine's doctrine of just war.
It is really about voting and power and overcoming the nation founded on protestant Christianity.
I want back every billion ‘we the people’ paid out to these human traffickers... Let US have an auction inside the Vatican first.
This fake ignores that the Heavenly Father promised Noah and US
Genesis 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
What a putz. Standing up for Little Dickie Durbin.
In 2025, Americans are still work-oriented while Europeans and Latin Americans are social-oriented.
If you go out on a date, the first question you'll be asked "so what do you do for work?"
And yes, it goes back to the Protestant work ethic. And we're a nation founded by settlers.
The Vatican is hard pressed financially. Soon this pope will be forcd to ask American bishops to rally their parishioners and make some major contributions. He may be disappointed with the response.
Hey Leo, mind your own business, such as homosexual priests, the slaughter of Christians in Africa, your LGBTQ perverts who you praise. While you lecture us on immigrants, we don’t see the Vatican opening up its doors to immigrants. Christians have been sold a bill of goods, but now we understand evil you bring.
Hey, Popester, how about preaching the gospel?
,,, I was a Catholic for over forty years. God doesn't need a franchise to operate in my heart and soul. These developments in the Catholic church make me glad that I ran and never looked back.
I’m like that too.
Me and G-d have a good understanding. He knows everything about me, and I know just a few about him. Intervening people or institutions are completely optional in this relationship.
Though I do appreciate learning the ways in which thousands of years worth of Jews have been thinking about and interacting with G-d. I can stand to learn new things that I find compelling.
Pope is Vicar General of Christ on Earth.
Bergoglio tellingly rejected the title.
Will Prevost do likewise?
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