Posted on 05/08/2025 3:28:11 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
That doesn't mean they are pro-life. Ruth Bader Ginsberg sad Roe was wrongly decided. A lot of top level pro-abortion people realized Roe was an obstacle to them more than a help. So it was overturned. Look, they've already passed pro-abortion initiatives in Republican states.
And the Republican party and top leaders have pretty much declared pro-life dead as an issue. Remember, before the election Trump and the Republicans promised they would never pass a law that would make abortion less legal. (They never promised not to pass a law that would legalize it nationwide.) The majority of people on both sides still don't realize what happened. Roberts voted against overturning Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.
Roberts wrote a concurrence (in judgement), which is basically a cowardly way of saying his vote was actually to overturn Roe.
So, he’s the second American pope, and second South American pope.
I can see where some would disagree with ‘ranking’ one’s loves in importance.
I suspect that taking on dual citizenship with Peru was expedient - he spent so much of his life and mission there.
But he was born, raised, and schooled in the US, so I will consider him the first American pope.
On the flip side indeed.
At least there’s one good thing about him, so that gives him a plus.
We’ll see how many more plus and minus things he says and does. Hope he’s not a total minus..
How he acts in the near future will be the tell. Apparently he was the hatchet man for Francis. Most of the people who elected him were vetted by him. He has a record of being pro life and has disparaged the transgender nonsense. He is of course a globalist and apparently abhors MAGA and nationalism.No documentation he has ever criticized Muslims or South American leftists/communists. It has yet to be seen how he will tolerate homosexuals in the clergy and their inevitable molestations and scandals. Frankly not optimistic about him but am willing to give him some time.
You don't think Pope Francis was a real pope?
Oh, yes - I forgot that Freemasonry being ‘Satanic’, and all sorts of dissing of Protestants, will still give you plenty of area to mine.
(Roberts voted against overturning Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.)
Thanks for noting
So he’s from Chicago, huh? Can he be bought?
The term ‘American’ is known all over the world to refer to USians. No matter where you go in the world, if you say you are ‘an American’, they know exactly that you mean you are a citizen of the US.
Citizens of Argentina call themselves exactly that; they don’t say they are ‘Americans’, and neither do Canadians.
This business of calling everyone in North and South America ‘American’ may be technically and geographically true, but it isn’t at all true in terms of usage.
(And at base, it’s usually just a way of putting down U.S. Americans.)
Actually, I've heard Canadians an Central/South Americans be annoyed by the fact that people from the U.S. are considered the only "Americans." This business of calling everyone in North and South America ‘American’ may be technically and geographically true, but it isn’t at all true in terms of usage. (And at base, it’s usually just a way of putting down U.S. Americans.)
I've always considered it the opposite. I was born and raised in the United States, and I am proud of it. I think it's insulting they take it away from us. Sure, I was born on the continent of North America, I don't dispute that. But I think using "American" as interchangeable with from the U.S. is a way to diminish, and take that away from us.
I am from the U.S. and no one can take that away from me! Just my $.02.
For the 2026 NFL Draft?
True That.
Agreed.
Well done.
thanks
I’m supposed to be impressed because a Catholic Pope is pro-life?
That’s a pretty low bar for a Catholic.
Let them be annoyed.
I bet when they travel and someone asks where they are from, they say, ‘I’m from Canada’, or ‘I’m from Argentina’. They don’t say, ‘I’m American’.
Of course, you can call yourself whatever you like. I’ll call myself an American; and I don’t think there will be any doubt as to where I come from, no matter where I go.
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