Laura Loomer lamented that the new pope ‘is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis,’ adding that it’s ‘GROSS’ that he now leads the Catholic Church
It didn’t take long for right-wing media figures and MAGA provocateurs to cry out in rage over the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV after it was revealed that he’d publicly criticized JD Vance and expressed sympathy for immigrants and George Floyd.
Despite feeling national pride over the fact that the Chicago-born Prevost has become the first American pope in history, conservative pundits and Trump loyalists fumed over the “WOKE MARXIST POPE” and complained that he is “worse than Francis,” referencing the previous pontiff known for his progressive values.
Even before the “dark horse” American cardinal was elected the 267th pope, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon warned about Prevost’s views, claiming that he would be a poor choice for the MAGA movement.
GOOD! that means he was the right choice…
He should excommunicate them all.
is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist
Wtf I love the pope now!
MAGA needs to learn new words. Radical leftist marxist communists (which are all contradictory things) is pretty fucking stupid.
You’re only an American If __________________
MAGA ISN’T A MOVEMENT IT’S A REGIME.
Totallyyy not a cult.
/s
Whaaaaat? This isn’t what Jesus would have wanted!
Greed 4:19 “You get your own fish and loaves. I paid for this. I can throw it on the floor if I want. Suck it up libtards!”
That’s my favorite Bible story.
Thinking a second about this, he literally pwned MAGA
The entire conservative line of thought is backed by Christianity and American exceptionalism, and now there comes an American pope and tells “You’re not following the God’s word”. That’s a damn checkmate.
Wonder how many MAGA supporters, many of which are devout Christians, will start questioning their beliefs.
Also, lol, a Marxist Pope is top comedy.
Christianity is the big umbrella of faith, Catholics are inside that umbrella and have been not so popular compared to other factions. Pope’s are catholic.
Personally I think it’s all horse shit but that’s just me.
I didn’t realize Catholics comprise less than Protestants. Still, 22% of Americans identifying as Roman Catholics is a big deal.
A “big deal” to people that give a shit, sure.
Christianity the religion and Christianity the political platform are different things. The con requires you to believe they are the same thing.
They won’t question their Christian beliefs for a single second because they didn’t have any in the first place. They’ll turn their backs and say “The Pope went woke,” still call themselves godly Christians, and continue to spread hate. During that whole time they will never question whether or not they’re Christian, they’ll just hate the Pope too.
Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.
The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.
I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.
The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.
Yeah, exactly this. It can be confusing because they call themselves Christians, loudly and frequently - but their attitudes and beliefs have sweet fuck all to do with the teachings of Christ.
It’s kinda like the way they use ‘Marxist’ for anyone left of Mussolini. I’m not sure if it’s a deliberate attempt to shift definitions, or if they don’t understand what the words actually mean. Wankers.
Much of the American Christian establishment is the type of Protestant that does not consider Catholics to be Christian.
I know that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense but that’s how Americans “do religion”.
Baptists don’t care what the Pope has to say, seventh-day Adventists think he is actually the Antichrist. Most American Catholics don’t really care what the Vatican has to say and would resent the implication that they’re supposed to give a shit about the Pope’s opinion.
Americans just don’t do religion very well.
It amazes me that Catholics will ride along with that bandwagon. Like when they get that Christian Nation they want, when freedom of religion is ditched in favour of state endorsed religion, and all that remains is to decide whether it’s going to be a Protestant Nation or a Catholic Nation, do they actually think it’s going to go their way?
I didn’t care about who the new pope was but he’s getting more sympathetic by the minute.
There is no such thing as marxist pope.
Are you calling Lara Loomer a liar?
Every second of the day
Leo XIII called marxism a “deadly plague”. I guess Leo XIV chose his name because he’s ok with his predecessor.
Yeah, but the new Pope may be to the left of Mussolini, so MAGA doesn’t like him.
I’m an atheist and I have no use for any religion, but if this new Pope pisses off MAGA, I could become a fan.
You know things are bad if the Catholic church is a last bastion for progressive social change
They’re a ratchet. Calling them progressive would be a straight lie but they do go with the times, maybe 100 years behind, picking up all stragglers that can reasonably be picked up.
In 50 years, mark my words, they will marry gay couples, or at least bless them before the congregation (without sacrament, or maybe they’ll invent a new, same-but-different, sacrament). Why? Because the Vatican recently gave priests authorisation to bless gay couples in private: Blessing the relationship, not just the individuals. Click.
Its weird to me that the same church that would allow flexibility to bless a gay relationship is also the same church that is inflexible regarding the confessional seal in cases of literal child abuse.
That is pretty fascinating though if true, considering that it would be completely upending the view of homosexuality as a sin. Im sure a priest cant bless something considered to be a sin, that would be antithetical
Lifting the seal won’t help a thing, on the contrary it might make things worse because then paedophiles aren’t going to confess, any more, and priests can’t tell them that god wants them to go to the police.
It’s akin to requiring therapists to tip off the police when you confess that you consume illicit drugs: All you’re doing is stopping people from talking about it in the first place.
Are there therapists who are drug dealers and abuse that confidentiality for their own business interest? I’m reasonably sure. I mean there are a gazillion of therapists in the world, there has to be at least a couple of drug dealers among them. But that’s no excuse to make it worse for everyone else.
People like teachers and of course child care workers should be reporters regarding this kind of stuff, but on the flipside the reports should go to a place where the victim then can find confidentiality. And maybe that’s even what at least some priests are doing (afterwards confessing that they broke the seal), important bit being that the perpetrator can’t know that the tip came from confession, and the official doctrine, “confession doesn’t leak”, is still intact.
A Canticle For Leibowitz is not an instruction manual.
Didn’t they kind of trend this way a bit after Vatican II?
…electric buggaloo?
I’m ever so closer to crossing Trump suggesting the US goes to war with the Vatican City off my 2025 bingo card…
I wonder how switzerland would react.
I’m adding that to mine now don’t tell anyone
Of course Laura Loonie is against anything that is good in the world.
MAGA would melt down no matter who they picked because everything maga is doing right now is the opposite of what Jesus would do, and whoever is the pope is going to criticize maga for being terrible humans.
Pope 1: MAGA Bad!
Pope 2: MAGA Bad!
Highly Religious MAGA: Pope Bad!
Gotta love it.
They would probably be alright if they had picked Trump as pope.
