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@TLDwrites @TaylorRMarshall @FeserEdward Benedict opposed bombing countries, JPII opposed the Iraq wars - were they woke?

@TaylorRMarshall @FeserEdward Well maybe the pope should be more 'pope like' instead of a leftwing woke political figure

The party line defense, of course, will be "Hey, he qualified it with 'almost,' so it's totally not insane or blasphemous"

@baileytrip9 @SohrabAhmari No

@SohrabAhmari It’s quite a coinky dink thought isn’t it?

Imagine being so dull to think that *this man* needed Axelrod to persuade him to speak out against threats to wipe out entire civilizations!

@JoeBiden Always good to check back in old tweets like this

There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now.

@shagbark_hick Sarah is a pretty harsh critic of western economics too

Many people, myself included, wanted to see Cardinal Sarah become the Pope. But a large proportion of those who wanted Sarah to become Pope would very likely have been gravely disappointed by his papacy had he been chosen. Read his words here; they hardly differ from Leo's on the subject of Islam. He is charitable and neighborly on the matter, and speaks in a manner that is geared toward fostering peace rather than stoking anger. He explicitly condemns cartoonish depictions of Muslims, and calls Christians to ask whether they themselves are matching serious practicioners of Islam in their faith, fasting, and prayer. I could see "LifeSiteNews" running outraged headlines over this kind of teaching very quickly. Though for many traditionalists, a Sarah papacy was an earnest hope -- and he verily would've defended the Latin Mass -- he was not quite the "unwoke" pick among the Cardinals. In fact, there really wasn't a Cardinal who would've actually satisfied the "unwoke MAGA trads" in the United States. It seems to me that in America, "conservatism" is thought by many to be synonymous with a loud, parochial, and brash type of populism -- one where we DESTROY the arguments of our opponents, and OWN the LIBS, etc. This brand of so-called "conservatism" does not appear to exist in Rome at all, which makes great sense, as it would be an impediment to the basically cosmopolitan, global mission of "making disciples of all nations" and of promoting the peace of Christ on earth. And so exponents of *certain types* of "tradcath-ism" will be perpetually aggrieved. Even if their preferred papal candidate had been chosen, they'd eventually have found a way to be outraged about him. Some of them (not all) have a habit of taking the "revenge of the punished losers" mentality of MAGA and shoehorning it into the Catholic faith, and the very predictable result is an endless torrent of permanent disgruntlement about basically everything. It just makes sense that the Pastor of the entire world is not going to cater to a tiny minority of angry Americans, and that he is not going to go around "OWNING the Muslims" and so on. He wants them to convert, not get mad. He understands that mutual respect is the first step to conversion, and that making a big show of condescension and outrage is never profitable. This post is, by the way, a defense of Pope Leo.

@JLLiedl Both the left and the right are doing an awesome job of misrepresenting the pope

People do realize that, while what the Holy Father says here is universally applicable, he is speaking to an audience in a city that has been beset by a civil war that has killed ~8,000 people?

@johnmilbank3 Both the American right and left can get Bent

American Catholics should now track Left — it is merely obvious that the overall Catholic outlook is nearer the Left in general than the Right in general. And great genealogy from Murray to the idiotic Novak showing the US Cath cons were at root liberals. unherd.com/2026/04/the-po…

@WalkingHymnal I think it's simply his ego - Pro attacking AI is probably least of concerns. Also I think there are serious questions about his mental acuity.

*IF* I had a "conspirocy theory" around the whole Trump/Leo episode it's that Trump, who is clearly big on AI, is aware, though his Catholic advisors, that Pope Leo is going to soon be coming out with an encyclical on AI & wants to try & premptively derail whatever Leo says on it

@ballstimoreos @Orioles He was formerly a top 100 guy

We have made the following roster moves:

@dane2epic @jcalvinmeyer Yes

@jcalvinmeyer is beavers really that bad in the field??

Orioles DRS leaderboard: Taylor Ward: +3 Jeremiah Jackson: +2 👀 Pete Alonso: +2 Blaze Alexander: +1 Colton Cowser: +1 ... Tyler O'Neill: -1 Leody Taveras: -2 Ryan Mountcastle: -2 Dylan Beavers: -4

@theekingcody Absurdly dumb is being kind

the replies and quotes to this tweet remind me how absurdly dumb our fans are...

@hf_222222 @OurLadyofAntifa @agostino_harry Yeah merton is a great example

@OurLadyofAntifa @agostino_harry All the wariness I have experienced from others in relation to her has related to politics, not sexual history, to be honest. I've seen much more focus on the sexual antics of say Thomas Merton, as being disqualifying from Sainthood, than on Day.

Literally wtf is this guy talking about. I don't even know what aspect of Day's past is being referenced here, whereas Augustine's scandalous past is a key part of like the second most famous conversion story ever.

Cardinal Prevost was promoted by Pope Francis and given a prominent Vatican position during his papacy. We found Prevost's twitter feed last year where he was trashing Trump and Vance, as well as border enforcement. And praising George Floyd

@hf_222222 @jr_fee @NCRonline @americamag I'm sure this group has the same feeling for Catholics standing with Trump over Iran rather than standing with Leo

@jr_fee @NCRonline @americamag So 400 members under 40yo on a database, means a couple of dozen max actually active, so ... basically all of the active ones at a guess.

You can tell this puff piece, is mostly about the author trying to convince herself this movement isn't near death, given how jarring the overwhelmingly positive tone is with the absolutely dire numbers they let slip.

@jdflynn @BEnugentphoto Likely not, but public officials have a much bigger microphone today

@BEnugentphoto Me too. Do you think any of them said something like this in public?

@jdflynn Perhaps the Whigs

I wonder if any American president has said previously that he is “not a fan” of the Roman pontiff.

This is a remarkable statement tonight from the American president;

@hf_222222 @USCCB I love how these idiots can't take a moment step back and realize we have unity but instead decide try to dunk on their shepherds

At some point it might manage to penetrative certain ideologically sealed bubbles that maybe the @USCCB was never filled with the Trumpists some pretended it was. But not yet apparently - Those bubbles are hermetically sealed tight.

@hf_222222 Yeah he's losing his grip

An example of the noetic effects of sin - Sin makes you stupid (as does Dementia). Trump was always capable of doing evil things, but this lacks the rat cunning which has historically helped him get away with it.

@kevin_ahern Yes nobody ever talks about St. Augustine's past or his autobiography 🙄

People like to defame Dorothy Day by speaking of a supposedly “scandalous” past- but those same people would never dare say that about St Augustine, Francis or Ignatius.Somehow men are held to a different level of sanctity

@Alitocute @josephnollasj You might wanna slow down and re-read

@josephnollasj Usted está en el centro de la batalla o que??? Perdone pero usted desde donde pide guerra???

“Easy enough for Pope Leo to speak out against war behind the safety of the Vatican walls. Coward.” Every time someone says garbage like that, gently remind them that Pope Leo literally made an Apostolic Journey to Lebanon during an intense Israeli bombing campaign.

@hf_222222 I think Tolkien would agree too

St Augustine, on the reality that even Just Wars, were only introduced into the world by sin and not by nature.