These people are insane.

See yah Slobby!

And Ireland. Continental Europe, maybe not so much, but there are enough devout Catholics there that it won't be good for him there, either.

save for the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing far right pretty much despise the US leadership at this stage anyway. No one is happy with Vance fucking around in Hungary either

You might have missed that Catholics were pointedly told they were not welcome at Hogsbreath's Easter service.

ANY Catholic Church would have already flung their doors wide open.

ALL are welcome at The Lord’s table. Or at least that’s what I learned in Catholic school. Jesus forgave sinners as He hung on the cross, near death. Why would He leave anybody out, now?

A number of us were curious about other denominations and decided to attend each other's services. The Catholics were forbidden from attending any other services, and it was made clear we weren't welcome to attend their (even though none of ours (Quaker, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran) forbid it)

People there went out of their way to make me feel welcome.

It was just the Catholics who both excluded others and were not allowed to attend other churches. This was in the 60s and early 70s. By the late 70s/early 80s it had changed, at least as to welcoming others to attend their services.

My father was a devout Catholic, and when he went to a Jesuit high school, he suggested to the music director that they should sing Bach's St. Matthew's Passion in choir. The choir director was horrified. Needless to say, Bach was forbidden at the school.

Times have changed since then, however.

Yeah. You didn’t talk in church. And you went to MASS. PERIOD. You did NOT investigate other faiths’ services. What I remember is that there was a bit more relaxed attitude toward that one. There were wealthy people and famous people whose kids went to that school. And a lot of those parents had all kinds of mixed marriages.

And on top of that, a close friend of mine in the older grades was a Greek Orthodox kid. First time I a) heard of that religion to begin with, and b) actually knew somebody who subscribed to that religion.

These cultists would shoot their own mothers if Trump/maga told them to.

Think that's an exaggeration? Ask that Texas couple whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles this time last year.

No regrets. God's will they said.

Sick.

He'd ban the Catholic Church, seize their assets, and declare himself God's chosen leader of the new Church of America.

He is completely insane.

Pope Leo is wise to stay out of the USA right now.

Remember that picture of Trump as the pope?

are proud of themselves now the Catholic Church is being threatened.

During holy week? No service for Catholics of any stripe. Protestants only.

don't even consider Catholics
Christian. A Jewish friend of my sister asked her, if she considered herself a Christian. She said "no", that she may not go to church, but she still considers herself a Catholic. She said, and I agree we in no way want to be mistaken with the perverted Maga brand of Christianity.

I’m sure my “super religious” Catholic brother and sister-in-law hate the pope because he actually follows the words of JC, therefore, he is woke! They’re, meaning a lot of my “holier than thou” family members and exclassmates, total hypocrites who, obviously, were reading a different bible than I was, and believe the “American Jesus” would think their dear leader is righteous in his actions against the horrible Muslim infidels. It’s the new Crusades, don’t cha know. 🤮

For the first time in a long time, I am proud of the Church I was raised in.

I could feel my temper rising when I read about Schlump threatening the Vatican.

I liked Pope Francis & I like Pope Leo. They represent what Christianity should be.

what was written in the New Testament. While these Magat religious zealots seem to want to go back to the eye for an eye Old Testament mentality. In my opinion they're trying to eliminate Jesus Christ from Christianity.

Francis and Leo.
My Mrs is a Lutheran (the evangelical brand not the mean ones that won't allow women as clergy)
And I occasionally go with her and they have a very good female pastor and if I was going to be a regular it would be there.
Very welcoming and inclusive.

Not in their Fox Bubbles.

They wouldn't understand the threat even if they did.

They summoned the Vatican’s ambassador….to browbeat him.

AND THAT WAS IT. THE ABORTION STANCE!!!! Needless to say I DON’T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF TIME FOR THEM. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

I dont believe for a movement that he gives a fat rat's ass about abortion, but SO many people fell for that.

A bunch, I'm sure.

As long as he is an effective Trojan Horse for their hellhole version of Earth.

....that orange walking diarrhea has caused himself??? Dozens.
2. Rich women will always be able to abort.
3. The Bible itself does not explicitly mention or forbid abortion. Full stop.

Numbers, chapter 5.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205&version=NIV

my brother and his entire family voted for the POS because of GUNS! Like, the Democrats ever did anything that negated the "free for all, wild west" environment around guns in the U.S. But they'll tell you tooth and nail that if Democrats ever got into office they'd take away everybody's guns. Stupid. Sis feels like I do... so politics, even just names, are off limits when Bro is near, which isn't too often. He's tried to reach out a few times to us since our Mom died last year, but he's even more of a loner than I am. We try to welcome him as much as possible in order to keep some semblance of the family together, but it's hard and not real comfy. LOL! Since trump put himself in the Oval this time around, we've not heard one word from Bro about this admin. Something tells me he may be coming around to our way of thinking, since trump is now threatening Medicare, SS, etc., and my brother just started drawing his. Funny how that works, eh?

...and just fakes it because it's a vote getter.

After all #PEDOnald wanted to have Tiffany aborted.

But, as saith John Cleese in The Holy Grail, "He got better."

And more about Avignon: in 1409 there were actually 3 popes. What a mess. One on Rome, one in Avignon, one in Pisa -- causing the tower to lean.

about US policies. I hope that Leo is not intimidated into silence. The US military would refuse to carry out orders against the Vatican, just as they recently did in the threats against Iran.

These past few days.

Also, I fucking PROMISE YOU that 'conversation'...came from that wannabe crusader nut Hegseth; this meeting was his idea.

He’ll soon understand the ‘stakes’.😀

And what the history of that is. What arrogance from the Pentagon

Join the line😀
My mum would have been good for this one.

The French king, ca. 14th century, didn't like the pope. So he merely appointed his own pope, who resided in Avignon.

See that, a new low almost daily.

Good on the Pope and his peeps! He refused to be intimidated and certainly wasn't going to be used.

the stupid imposition.

How he still has somewhere near 30% support on anything is baffling. Corporate media isn't going to be able to keep putting any more lipstick on this pig.

. . . " Under Secretary of War for Policy " -- he is " Under Secretary of DEFENSE for Policy."

This mtng. may have been Hegseth's idea or Elbridge Colby may have cooked it up.
Staggering.

That could work some freaking miracle right now!

I don know the exact historical details but in centuries past, violent deeds have occurred against enemies of the Church.


I just can't remember.

Here's a link to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy

Here's the AI response:

Is it because the Pope is anti war and not siding with this invasion of Iran?

Except Jonathan Winters was a really funny guy. There is nothing funny about this fraud.

He's enough of a shameless opportunist to do it. He has no ideology except power.

After all, the Pope's not a Christian Nationalist is he?

That would make him the enemy.

That wasn't on my bingo card.
I'm slipping.

Cpl. Jackass Dickface Vance being one of them. I seriously had an opportunity to prevent him from becoming VP. But like the butterfly effect, I checked the wrong box with regards to my choice of duty station and didn't bother to re-enlist in 2002 which was a year before that fucker went to boot camp.

who knows exactly how much power he wields.

The Satan in the White House and his Demonic Secretary of WAR have threatened the Pope, and all of Catholicism.
The Catholic Church has already taken it's side; the side of Jesus. They have taken the side of spiritual truth and justice; the side of love.

So now we can see Hegseth in his true form as the beast he truly is. The Trump government is evil incarnate.

This isn't a parody?

it just proves that happened months ago.

I'm surprised they didn't propose Vance as Leo's usurper, what with his liking for fabrics and all.

look so good sitting there with his glitter eyeliner.

are going to inform their congregations of this? I won't hold my breath waiting for the announcements.

France didn't like the Italian pope so they installed a French pope in Avignon.
So Trump is thinking of a split from Rome for American (maga) Catholics.

Good luck with that.

Spirit of the age and all that.

Vance could take on that role, leaving the Antichrist for Trump. That should keep the Evangelicals happy.

Every single day we are reminded that the Trump Crime Family is diabolically evil.

Love this Pope as Leo was my dad's name

You's think he could find something better to do. But I guess one could say that about EVERYTHING he does.

The Pentagon is drunk with power.

It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.

This thin-skinned mafia administration is insane.
newrepublic.com/post/208820/...

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T22:50:43.514Z

Important snip

Tensions had not been mended by February, when the Holy See rejected the White House’s invitation to host Pope Leo—the religious order’s first U.S.-born pontiff—for America’s 250th anniversary in July. Instead, the Catholic leader has arranged to visit a very different locale on July 4: Lampedusa, a tiny island between Tunisia and Sicily where North African immigrants wash ashore by the thousands

Thanks

Trump is not the planner of this right wing coup, he is the front man. He gets to cosplay and do foreshadowing and trolling.
He is the talent, the entertainer, the showman. He gets to say: You’re Fired. Bul the big decisions are made elsewhere.

The planners are madmen too, but there is a method to their madness.

Peter Thiel has been doing seminars on the Antichrist right down the street from the Vatican.

Pope Leo is reining in Opus Dei, bringing the church back to the people and the Conservative Catholic movement is very angry. I

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Don't take any shit from them Leo.

Pope says Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is ‘truly unacceptable’

BY NICOLE WINFIELD
Updated 3:14 PM CDT, April 7, 2026
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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable” and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, the American pope urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.

“Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” Leo said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

He was referring to Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-iran-trump-threat-unacceptable-332059536d7c4d6071c8f5abb35d8c8d

Declined his invitation to the 250th

May not be a group you want to piss off...

Not a good idea to piss them off...for different reasons.

He may not appreciate it, but Dimdonniedipshit truly is the opposite of anything good and the lowest of the low.

"I've met some bad people. Not one as bad as Trump. Not a decent cell in his entire body." -- Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislain Maxwell

the Vatican's stuff - especially the gold stuff.

The entire administration should have been gone months ago.

Hell, it never should have been in there to begin with.

I don’t believe in hell

😀

“has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

does that talk get these guys chanting "usa usa usa" because it ain't working on me.

games have come true.

They really think that they can do anything, anywhere, anytime.

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