I see that the fish-eaters have elected a new boss — a guy from Chicago, no less — and there ya go.
Ordinarily, I’d be totally indifferent to this event; but quite apart from being an atheist, though, I was always critical of the new Pope Leo XIV’s predecessor because he was, to put it mildly, a Green Commie.
However:
Before being elected pope, he shared several posts on X that took aim at the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, including the controversial policy of separating families at the US border. In one post that Pope Leo XIV re-shared, the original author wrote: “There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages. This is being carried out in our name and the shame is on us all.”
Nope, yer Holeyness; the shame is entirely on the parents who exposed their children to all this.
But still (from Wikipedia):
Pope Leo XIV has opposed the ordination of women to the diaconate. As a bishop, Prevost opposed the inclusion of curriculum regarding “teachings on gender in schools” in Peru, stating that the “promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist.”
Also:
In 2012, Prevost lamented that popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel”, citing the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
Sheesh. If all the above is true (#WikiPediaIsAwful), and apart from the “Catholic” thing, those are things that I might have said.
So maybe the Catholic Church might become something worth belonging to, again, for those people interested in such stuff. And devout, conservative Catholics — like many of my Loyal Readers — can stop being ashamed of their Church’s leadership.
Apparently Pope Commissar Frank stacked the deck on the cardinals or bishops or whoever elects the pope. Commissar Frank installed about 130 of the 160 cardinals who went to the recent conclave and Frank also banned anyone over the age of 80 from voting. I’m sure pope Frank’s moves were to stack the deck against any conservative Catholic from getting anywhere near the papacy.
But let’s give Leo a chance. Let’s see if he is truly a moderate as some press has reported. The best thing he could do is expel all the pedos they find whether they had illicit relations with other men, women or children. Enact a zero tolerance policy for pedos and don’t just move them around. Turn the pedos over to the police for investigation and prosecution.
There was a movie that came out within nthe last year called “Conclave” that was about the election of a new pope. It was rather interesting.
Is Leo going to change the holy Eucharist to either a Chicago Dog or a slice of deep dish? That just might increase attendance
He is a committed leftist, nothing will change.
It doesn’t impact me (LCMS Lutheran) but I do feel sorry for my Catholic friends and relatives who will have to spend the next however many years trying to come up with convincing excuses for his lefty antics.
69 is mighty young for a pope. Is he old enough to drink the church wine? (Satire alert)
On a serious note – nothing against individuals who believe in god, however I find much if not all of organized religion to be a huge scam. Lately the god squad grifts money tax free as usual but all of a sudden they are ok with illegal immigration, gays and lesbians and of course they hate guns even though the Vatican is guarded by guns.
I guess in all this, why is this a top news story?
Again no offense to individuals who are people of faith but I say again this organized religion and their orders seem very shady.
I am a relapsed Catholic, and I have not forgiven the American Catholic church’s role in fostering illegal immigration.
He’s one of the ones that shuffled and hid the diddlers. When he was elected, all the pedos in the church breathed a sigh of relief.