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Vatican sources have been saying for some time that Leo is *significantly* more conservative on sexual morality than Francis. Today we learned beyond doubt that their assessment is correct.

“I love Europe but hate the thing that united Europe and facilitated its rise from typical continental playing field into worldwide superpower”

JUST IN: Pope Leo XIV responds to Cardinal Marx — Says Vatican does not approve blessing of same sex couples. Adds a blessing can be given to “all people” like at the end of Mass. Leo states—— “First of all, I believe it is very important to understand that the unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual issues. We tend to think that when the Church speaks of morality, the only moral issue is a sexual one. In reality, I believe there are much larger and more important issues—such as justice, equality, the freedom of men and women, and religious freedom—that should take priority over that particular issue. The Holy See has already spoken with the German bishops. The Holy See has made it clear that we do not agree with the formal blessing of couples—in this case, same-sex couples, as you requested—or of couples in irregular situations, beyond what Pope Francis has specifically permitted by saying that all people should receive the blessing. When a priest gives the blessing at the end of Mass, when the Pope gives the blessing at the end of a great celebration like the one we had today, there are blessings for all people. Francis’s famous expression, “everyone, everyone, everyone,” expresses the Church’s conviction that everyone is welcomed, everyone is invited, everyone is invited to follow Jesus, and everyone is invited to seek conversion in their own lives. To go beyond this today, I believe, could cause more disunity than unity, and that we should seek to build our unity on Jesus Christ and on what Jesus Christ teaches. This is my answer to the question.

Self-declared messiah Sabbatai Zevi was stripped bare as archers took aim at him. The Grand Vizier offered three options: survive the arrows as a divine miracle, convert to Islam, or be impaled. Zevi chose to convert. Peak comedy. This unfolded in 1666, after years of feverish Kabbalah mania drenched in antinomianism, the wildly subversive idea that in the messianic age, all the old rules could be smashed and "sinful" acts became holy. Jews from Jerusalem to London were swept up in the hysteria; people sold their homes, quit their jobs, and prepared to march to the Holy Land. Then their messiah publicly folded, and the shock was seismic. Yet thousands still followed his example, becoming the Dönmeh: crypto-Jews who lived as Muslims by day while secretly clinging to their Sabbatean beliefs and rituals by night. Zevi was later caught continuing Jewish practices. The Ottomans exiled him to the remote backwater of Ulcinj (in modern Montenegro), where he died in isolation in 1676. One of history's largest messianic movements… died with its "savior" converting on the spot, and gave birth to a shadowy crypto-sect that still haunts conspiracy theories centuries later.