Pope Francis II Pope Leo XIV adopts one of the most dishonest and historically ignorant catchphrases of Pope Francis. Links below are the times in which PopeWatch noted the use by Francis of the phrase:
I fear that this pontificate, with a few exceptions, will be a regurgitation of the greatest hits of the Francis pontificate, with a Chicago accent.
Just great 😐
Francis Ii with a Chicago accent.
The worst of both worlds.
Not simply Francis 2.0, there can’t be unanimous agreement with incoherence.
This man is a puppet of the Lavender Mafia.
Italy devotes 1.6% of its gross domestic product to its armed services. Unlike schools and hospitals, the armed services are an inherently public function.
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NB, in the United States, 3.8% of gross domestic product is devoted to the armed services. About 12% is devoted to medical care and long-term care. Shy of 6% is devoted to schooling.
I agree with Pope Francis, Pope Leo, and the long line of other Popes that there are merchants of death in this world of ours, both individual and corporate, and yes, they do profit off death and war. Does war control economies? No, it often decimates economies not strengthen them.
I’ve decided to go back a read again that now most derided document by the USCCB “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response”, (Ascension Press has a very good edition) and I am enjoying the read. It’s an interesting statement, the quality of which hasn’t been reproduced by the USCCB since then. I find it a thoughtful and challenging document, not perfect in every area, but needed reading for me at this time.
When I look at some sectors of American Catholicism and Protestantism, there is an unwillingness to examine how the USA uses its power, and who it sells arms to, and to what purpose. As I read the Gospel, there is a strong desire and hope for peace in this world that we live in, and that gets overlooked, or felt to be something ethereal, not valid to the world that we live in.
It can’t be that way. We cannot allow the call for peace be ignored because we feel that it’s not part of “the real world”, only the Lavender Mafia” people want that, or we need to put American power first.
We are called to live the beatitudes the best we can, and try to influence the world around us to be peaceful, the best we can, keeping Gospel/Catholic values for peace in our awareness at all times.
The question of peace and how to bring it about in this sinful world of ours is a extremely difficult question, to say the least, but we cannot let realism or common sense rule the day, but the teachings of Jesus.
As it says in “The Challenge of Peace” n. 337 “Let us have the courage to believe in the bright future and in a God who wills it for us – not a perfect world, but a
better one. The perfect world, we Christians believe, is beyond the horizon, in an endless eternity where God will be all in all. But a better world is here for human hands and hearts and minds to make.”
It is our duty as Catholics to assist God in making a better world, a more peaceful world.
I agree with Pope Francis, Pope Leo, and the long line of other Popes that there are merchants of death in this world of ours,
The only merchants of death that I can discern are terrorist regimes like Iran. The embrace of the Church of pacifism since World War II, accompanied by a strong trend of appeasing the Left and Islam, has given aid and comfort to some of the most despicable regimes on the planet. The Vatican-China deal is only one example.
But Pope Leo, to my knowledge, hasn’t once voiced concern over both the Church closing Catholic schools and Catholic hospitals losing their Catholic identity. When will the Holy Father express concern over the disappearance of the groups of religious which once ran those schools and hospitals?
Time for the return of Pope Watch!
David: To my mind, Saudi Arabia is a terrorist supporter around the world, and they are one of the countries that America supplies arms to. According to a Google search, the USA is responsible for 43% of global arms export. It is an issue that needs to be addressed. It’s true there are other issues, but this area does not lessen other areas of importance, nor do other areas lessen the importance of selling arms to other countries.
Yeah, more hospitals is what the Pope wants … Think of all the money laundering opportunities being missed!!
The Pope has a point though … I imagine those trebuchet dealers were really raking it in during the crusades!
I don’t care what people like Francis, Leo XIV, or even Matthew in the comment box here at TAC think or say. I am deeply satisfied knowing that the United States has the most powerful conventional and nuclear weapons imaginable to utterly defeat evil regimes like the tyranny of the Iranian mad mullahs and the narco terrorism of Venezuela. That communist China and Russia (even with its Poseidon 6 nuclear torpedo and its Berevesnik Skyfalk nuclear cruise missile) are powerless to stop the current Administration, and that the godless Democrats, the USCCB, and the Vatican can only howl like offended hyenas pleases me no end. May radical militant Islam, communism, and the Democratic Party (along with the USCCB and the homo-erotic clerics in the Vatican) become one with Ninevah and Tyre, Sodom and Gomorrah. Factio Democratica Delenda Est!
“According to a Google search, the USA is responsible for 43% of global arms export. It is an issue that needs to be addressed…”
The President is actively seeking an end to the war in Ukraine, an end to the US providing support for NATO countries and soon an end to the US needing to provide support for Israel against a true terrorist state!
David: To my mind, Saudi Arabia is a terrorist supporter around the world,
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Who are they financing and where?
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and they are one of the countries that America supplies arms to.
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They buy military equipment from American manufacturers. You object to this just why?
there is an unwillingness to examine how the USA uses its power, and who it sells arms to, and to what purpose.
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There are private companies in the United States which produce weapons, munitions, ships, planes, and vehicles. Foreign governments buy from them to equip their militaries and police forces. Do you object to foreign governments having militaries and police forces? Why is that?
Anti-American ideologues like Matthew conveniently ignore both communist China’s massive buildup of its nuclear weapons capability and its blue water naval assets, and Russia’s development of the Poseidon 6 nuclear powered, nuclear armed torpedo, and of the Berevesnik Skyfalk nuclear powered, nuclear armed cruise missile. That previous Democrat Administrations failed to prevent communist North Korea from becoming nuclear armed is purely incidental to them. The hypocrisy of such individuals, whether Papal like Francis and Leo or laity like Matthew, is utterly contemptible. When Leo starts doing something positive about ridding the Churchof homo-eroticism and begins preaching the Gospel of conversion and repentance, holiness and righteousness, death, judgment, heaven, and hell, then and only then will he have any justification to begin preaching about US weapons capability. Until then, they can all shut the blank up!
PS on my old nuclear submarine, if we had been order back in 79 to shoot our fusion tipped subroc missiles at Iranian naval ports to rescue the 66 hostages taken by the mad mullahs, we would have longingly done so. Don’t you dare forget that, Matthew, and all you pusillanimous weaklings like him.
the USA is responsible for 43% of global arms export. It is an issue that needs to be addressed.
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Whether that datum is correct or not, it’s not terribly surprising that occidental countries have an advantage in producing weaponry that is both sophisticated and reliable. BTW, north of 40% of the productive capacity to be found in the Occident and the affluent Orient is to be found in the United States.
t can’t be that way. We cannot allow the call for peace be ignored because we feel that it’s not part of “the real world”, only the Lavender Mafia” people want that, or we need to put American power first.
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Peace is always on someone’s terms. You have peace because of three interlocking phenomena: absence of ambition to breach the peace, equilibrium between contending parties, and overwhelming force by one party. You cannot do much about the ambitions of foreign political elites (sustained to a greater or lesser degree by public attitudes). You can merely counteract them and defeat them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCG1CgNQF8
“Run the recording, boys..”
The bottom line for me: We celebrate a feast day every year: Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. This means something or it doesn’t. To me it means that Jesus in the King of this world, not the USA, not Islam, not atheists, not the Democratic Party, nor the Republican Party — No, Jesus Christ is the King of the world, and all principlaities and powers.
I am a part of His Kingdom and I want His will to be done. There is a Providence of God behind everything that happens, and as followers of Christ, it is our duty to try to understand it. This includes how nations conduct their business and wars, they are not exempt from God’s will. It that happens to put me at odds with some people, so be it, but I will not abandon trying to understand how the teachings of Jesus and His Holy Catholic Church fit into the crazy, mixed-up, violent, beautiful world of ours.
Hey, I even got the dreaded red minus vote!
Hey, I even got the dreaded red minus vote!
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In your last remarks, you evaded every question put to you.
The Holy Father says while sitting comfortably in the hip pocket of the CCP, real merchant of death!
Heckuva job Conclave 2025! Heckuva job!
New Merchant of Death March 8 (UPI) — Mojtaba Khamenei will be Iran’s next supreme leader, taking over for his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in air strikes last month. Hard liner.
So… who had
“2026 – The Year of Five Khameneis”
on their bingo card?
Sad that this man will be an asterisk in Iranian history after he becomes the next smudge on the next pile of rubble. Another soul lost to Islam and the lure of earthly power.
So, the claim “the US is the largest arms exporter” sounded like other fake arguments like “Red states have the highest crime rates [because of Blue-dominated dystopian metropolises that consent to no-bail, revolving door, catch-and-release” crime policies].”
Well here are the largest recipients of US arms exports :
Saudi Arabia and Ukraine are the largest purchasers of U.S. arms, with Saudi Arabia accounting for 12–15% of total U.S. exports; Ukraine takes in 9% as of 2020–2024. Other top buyers include Japan (8.8%), Australia (6.7%), South Korea (5.3%), and Taiwan (1.5%). Key importers also include Qatar and NATO allies like Germany and Poland. (from: Statista, CNN).
None of those are aggressor states: but all of them are threatened by aggressor states (ah, Holy Father, ah, like, ah, maybe, China, Russia, and Iran).
Side note: The arms business, at best, is about a break even venture for profits. Most of the contracts are governmental and sharply limit profits. The one tangible social effect is increased employment. The middlemen are the ones who do best in the arms business. Some examples are the Soviet AK 47, Chinese SKS and Russian MiG. US does the same with allies under various security arrangements. The transactions in almost all instances are politically motivated and not very reliable as long term affairs when the interests change.
Death, war, famine and pestilence.
DavidWS:
The Lavender Mafia is arrested development, men stuck by choice in their anal stage. The American Psychiatric Assc. got a law passed to forbid anyone from counseling a troubled youth out of sodomy.
Who is going to counsel the APA out of being non-essential?
Mathew:
People are judged individually by God anyway, definitely not by Francis II
i think the term describes arms dealers, not governments.