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@CynicalPublius No. The Pope has made it clear he isn't coming to the US this year. It's annoying to see people losing their minds over a Pope following the Beatitudes and espousing Just war theory. He's not "flaming" the President, the insults go one way.

Trump and the Pope need to agree to a face-to-face summit ASAP. As we all know as X randos, it's easy to have a flame war online, it's not so easy to do that face-to-face. A summit could defuse this situation, a situation that benefits no one but Barack Obama. Plus, Trump could give His Holiness a classified briefing on Iran's nuclear capabilities and their intent as to precipitating Armageddon so the Twelfth Imam can arise from a well in Qom. Win-win.

@BeSaintly @facsimileglib Jesus, St. Paul, and John the Baptist were all virgins.

@facsimileglib For starters our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was perfectly chaste, and said Himself that some men are “eunuchs” for the Kingdom of God

It’s either from arrogance or insanity how people will say that a man who is celibate and dedicated his entire adult life to the faith has never read the bible.

@BeSaintly They believe what their pastors tell them to believe. They'll never respond when you tell them Catholics receive an indulgence for reading the Bible, that Holy Scripture is read at every Mass, and that the most popular religious podcast is the Bible in a Year w/Fr. Mike Schmitz.

@TCNetwork Jesus is God. He explicitly said He was God. If He is not God, He is a madman and inherently evil.

The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity. Today's Morning Note newsletter covers Masoud Pezeshkian's condemnation of Trump's “desecration of Jesus,” the Iran War's gutting effects on America's housing market, Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami, and more. Read below. watchtcn.co/4stA1RL

@LangmanVince What positions of the Pope are liberal? He is far to the right of Trump on abortion, birth control, IVF, euthanasia, traditional marriage, divorce, and trans issues. Does that make the President a liberal?

Barack Obama used the fake Steele dossier to undermine President Trump's first term. No, he's using a liberal Pope who hates President Trump to undermine the midterms. That's why Obama sent Axelrod to meet with Pope Leo XIV. It was a strategy session.

@Moderatemuch The Church definitely needs to be excommunicating more people.

Fair point.

@BillArnoldTeach Me!

Who’s Catholic

@AgainstAtheismX Pain. Penn Jillette once talked about how could a loving God let his mom die in agony. Most atheists are in tremendous spiritual pain.

Christians What do you think is the most common reason people turn Atheist?

@mitchellvii I voted for him 3 times. He was portraying himself as a Christ figure.

Honestly, when I saw this picture of Trump I didn't think of Jesus at all. He looks more like an apostle is healing sick people. I'm a very strong born-again Christian. I wasn't even remotely offended. 99% of the people who were offended by this hated Trump anyway.

@harukaawake You guys are welcome to take the lead from Singapore and cane graffiti makers. They deserve worse than that.

🇯🇵 A tourist from New York was captured spray painting graffiti in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. This type of behavior should get you immediately deported from Japan.

@BrandynsWisdom A famous leftist once said "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. " why don't people leave Him?

If my Pastor started preaching Leftist ideologies that are antithetical to Scripure, I would leave that church. Why don't Catholics do the same?

@megbasham CS Lewis said that in Christianity there are things that annoy the left and things that annoy the right. Referring to men who oppose transsexualism, abortion, birth control, euthanasia, and the gay lobby as "lefty" makes you look ridiculous. This is standard Christian doctrine

I could be wrong, but I think lefty bishops are overplaying their hand here. I think we’re getting to the point that most Americans are going to see this for what it is and it’s not going to push Trump supporters away from Trump. It’s going to push Americans to have negative feelings about the Catholic Church.

@patrickmadrid @JamesDitto12 @Silentgunner543 @l_vliet72077 @MrCasey62 I kind of want to see the Protestants make a sitcom about the Lord's youth. His sinful parents, all His sinful brothers and sisters, and He, the incarnate God. It's ridiculous, but it would be hilarious that God entrusted His Son to such people.

LOL. Interesting theory. Too bad it’s false. If there were “zero tradition” before Jerome that Jesus had no siblings/brothers born of the Virgin Mary, why would he appeal specifically to patristic Tradition in Against Helvidius as part of his biblical and historical defense of her perpetual virginity, something which even Luther and Calvin both affirmed? It’s as if Jerome wrote these words in direct response to your own ignorance of patristic testimony, @JamesDitto12: “But as regards Victorinus, I assert what has already been proved from the Gospel—that he spoke of the brethren of the Lord not as being sons of Mary, but brethren in the sense I have explained, that is to say, brethren in point of kinship not by nature. . . . “Might I not array against you the whole series of ancient writers? Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenæus, Justin Martyr, and many other apostolic and eloquent men, who against Ebion, Theodotus of Byzantium, and Valentinus, held these same views, and wrote volumes replete with wisdom. If you had ever read what they wrote, you would be a wiser man.” ccel.org/ccel/schaff/np… Next time, study first before attacking something which you clearly do not understand. @MrCasey62

The Bible—read properly—proves Catholicism. That’s why the Catholic Church from the start read the Bible at every Mass, taught it in schools, and yes, translated it into the common languages—by order of the Pope. @patrickmadrid lays it all out here: patrickmadrid.substack.com/p/the-myth-tha…

@Y2John84 Tell him about the Twinkie.

If you know what this is - beautiful, you're hired.

“I voted for the man three fucking times. But going after da Pope, marone! is a bridge too far, even for me”

@livpresent @Johnny_Joey Praying for peace. So unbiblical.

@ggbackpackers @Johnny_Joey This isn’t biblical at all.

-Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the son of God or our messiah. -Mormons believe Joseph Smith re-established Jesus’ church here in America -Catholics believe the Pope is an earthly representative of Christ. I dont agree with any of that, nor am I “against” them. I share my country with them, and I share parts of my faith with them. However, I don’t want the leaders of any of those religions or the institutions they lead to have any sort of moral authority over my President.

@HalseyxtB @Johnny_Joey Today has really made me realize that it's possible to be insulted and not take offense. It's pretty glorious.

@ggbackpackers @Johnny_Joey You speak Golden calf.

It's impressive that you can be MAGA for 11 years, but the SECOND you stand up for Christ, you're "woke." Oh well, I die the King's good servant, but God's first.

Trump is trying to piss off every voting block that helped push him to win in 2024. It’s really bizarre. You know who’s not having problems with him? The military industrial complex, the IRS, the anti-gun lobby, Israel, and a handful of people paid to praise him.

We stand with Pope Leo XIV.🇻🇦🇯🇵 #教皇レオ14世を支持します