Normally I think a sound policy of any contemporary Pope is to advise the Caesars of the world, when possible, to attempt to avoid war. However, the problem with Pope Leo and the Iran War has been his stridency, misstating Church teaching on war, interspersed with perfunctory remarks against atrocities committed by the Iran regime. Pacifism, which is the defacto stance of the Vatican, gives support to the worst of regimes on the planet and is cold comfort for the subjects of tyrannies. I admit it is often a tight rope walk for popes, but they knew the job was hard before they agreed to take it.
Stop. The. Plane. Conferences. Holiness.
Wish he’d get The Cross right-
which would/does solve every thing.
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Don, you should write a book to accumulate all the [insert Popes’ name here] “would beg to differ.” Since the beginning of Pope Francis and apparently continuing, there should be plenty of material.
Continuity between most Popes has traditionally been a strength of the Church. Since Vatican II that has been thrown out the window.
Leo admitted the wrongs of Iran after being called out by the punditsphere and Trump/Vance.
In other centuries, crowned heads (that actually cared about Christ) were a counterbalance to Pope’s who got off course. In Trump/Vance, we (very unexpectedly) have that dynamic once again.
Since the bishops flatly refuse to perform any corrective function, I am quite glad to have a legitimate authority willing to say to Rome “Do better.”
Whichever reporter asked that question has been put on the Vatican no-fly list.
Reminder: There is no moral tradition that prevents reaching for a weapon to defend oneself while regretting the preceding events that necessitated that action.
The pope can at least stop advocating things that actually make war necessary.
Yeah, well, like his thug Jesuit predecessor, he is not a stand up guy.
Leo fears Islam. Leo fears the CCP. The pastor reference is a cop out.
I second what Greg Mockeridge wrote.
Put a red nose on the cardinals who voted this top clown into office.
A future pope is going to one hell of a thankless task clarifying the confusion caused by some of his predecessors, starting with the disjointed revision of the Catechism regarding the death penalty. Hagan Leo XIV
Guys, Pope Leo XIV simply hates the United States. He cited the US by name in his most recent call for the abolition of the death penalty, but he didn’t mention Iran or North Korea or any other country by name except to say the rest of the world. He doesn’t care about Muslims murdering Christians in Africa, or the Chinese communists persecuting Catholic Christians. We’re simply going to have to face the fact that we must go through perhaps another 10 to 20 years of rejection by a man unworthy to sit in Saint Peter’s Seat.
Third Secret of Fatima playing out in real time.
The Roman Pontiff….showing up at a Nuclear Freeze protest, spouting off on Twitter as a Cardinal and shoving his nose into the Iran situation….he has shown his colors. Like a leopard, he isn’t changing his spots
Pastor Jimmy galabants. Ripnik is on the loose.
Roche, not content with grinding the Latin Mass faithful under his heel, goes after the Anglican Ordinariate.
Self defense is virtue. Let the pope give up the Swiss Guard, then talk.