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An American Pope - Oh_hunnihunni - 09-05-2025
Just me, or is that also a response to Trumpism?
RE: An American Pope - harm_less - 09-05-2025
Could be some interesting interactions on the way.
https://www.reuters.com/world/before-becoming-pontiff-pope-leo-levied-criticism-trump-vance-2025-05-08/
RE: An American Pope - nzoomed - 09-05-2025
Seems a bit co-incidental to me, he appears to have been critical of Trump, and with his most recent remarks about being pope, this all falls into place.
RE: An American Pope - Lilith7 - 09-05-2025
Interesting times...
RE: An American Pope - Oh_hunnihunni - 09-05-2025
The Church fights back, lol...
RE: An American Pope - king1 - 09-05-2025
I wonder how much it cost the US to buy off all the Cardinals?
RE: An American Pope - zqwerty - 09-05-2025
Nope the American Right hates him they think he's Marxist lol
MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html
RE: An American Pope - Lilith7 - 10-05-2025
(09-05-2025, 06:42 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Nope the American Right hates him they think he's Marxist lol
MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html
Surely they can't really be that ignorant; they must know very well that the Pope's not in any even very,very slightly 'Marxist.'
What they mean but won't say, is that he doesn't agree with their rigid,damaging far right BS....surely, they cannot be that stupid & ill informed.
RE: An American Pope - harm_less - 10-05-2025
(09-05-2025, 04:37 PM)king1 Wrote: I wonder how much it cost the US to buy off all the Cardinals?US politics may have been influential in the choice of Pope but not in the way you're implying IMO. The Catholic church has far greater sway than the White House and I suspect the world is going to now witness a power play in that respect.
RE: An American Pope - Oh_hunnihunni - 10-05-2025
I agree. And that is the Trump effect slowly going international. Not pro, but opposing. Resisting.