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@jared_shult It just gets worse every day.

Judgment day

@ChristopherHale Drum roll…

Trump posted two tweets: one that enraged Catholics and one that enraged evangelicals. He deleted the tweet that enraged evangelicals. The one mocking Pope Leo XIV stayed up. There is only one honest explanation for that choice. MAGA Catholics have zero influence over President Trump. He cares about what evangelicals think, and nothing else. The coalition conservative Catholics thought they were joining does not defend them when it counts, and it certainly does not defend their pope. I want to say this as gently as I can to our conservative Catholic friends: the movement you trusted to protect the Church just mocked her shepherd to his face, and the men you elevated to power would not lift a finger to stop it. thelettersfromleo.com/p/today-the-ch…

Statement From Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly: In recent days, many Catholics and other people of goodwill have been deeply disappointed by the disparaging comments directed at Pope Leo XIV by the President of the United States. The Successor of Saint Peter is not a politician — he is the Vicar of Christ, entrusted with proclaiming the Gospel and shepherding souls. The Knights of Columbus has always stood in solidarity with the Holy Father, recognizing in him a spiritual father who calls the world not to division, but to unity, not to conflict, but to peace. In this moment, we reaffirm that commitment with clarity and conviction. At the same time, we recognize that faithful Catholics can and do engage vigorously in the public square, and that nations have a right and duty to safeguard the security of their own people — always in accordance with the demands of justice and the pursuit of peace. The Church does not ask Catholics to withdraw from civic life, but to engage with and elevate it — bringing to our civic dialogue the light of truth, respect for the dignity of every human person, and a steadfast concern for the common good. Pope Leo XIV has consistently called for peace, dialogue, and restraint in a world marked by war and suffering. The Holy Father’s words are not political talking points — they are reflections of the Gospel itself. Whether one agrees or disagrees with particular policy judgments, the Holy Father’s prophetic voice deserves to be heard with respect and engaged seriously. As Knights, we are called to be men of unity, as followers of Christ and patriotic citizens. I encourage all Knights of Columbus to pray for the Holy Father, to pray for civic leaders, and to pray for peace and those working to achieve it. And let us recommit ourselves to charity in our public discourse. May we be known not for echoing the divisions of our time, but for healing them. In a moment of tension, the path forward is not louder conflict, but deeper fidelity — to truth, to charity, and to the Gospel.

@PatsonKanengoni @Teri_ktm @business Asking for peace and love is arrogant? Make it make sense, bro.

@Teri_ktm @business Your Pope is also very arrogant

Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, pushed back on Pope Leo XIV’s criticism of the war on Iran, saying the pontiff’s remarks were not based in theological truth and that he should be “careful” with his words on the matter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Teri_ktm @business Somehow he is smarter than the literal world leader on the sunject, who also holds a PhD in Canon Law. Carry on. I guess.

@business 2026 goals 1. Release a book about my conversion to catholicism 2. Reprimand the Pope these prople - the arrogance is beyond

@business This f—king dude

If an American politician can fly abroad and get involved in European politics, why can’t an American religious leader speak about issues in his own birth country? So let me get this straight: Vance hopping on a plane to Budapest to cozy up with Orbán and cheer on Hungary’s internal policies? Totally fine, patriotic even—‘diplomacy,’ you call it. But an American-born Pope (from Chicago, for crying out loud) daring to open his mouth about moral or social issues back home in the US? Suddenly it’s ‘stay in your lane, foreigner!’ Pick a lane, bestie. Either sovereign countries get to mind their own business and outsiders (especially Americans) should butt out of other nations’ politics… or everyone gets to have an opinion, including the Pope on America. You can’t have it both ways just because it suits your team this week. That’s not principle—that’s performative hypocrisy with extra sauce.

Vice President JD Vance said Pope Leo XIV was wrong to say that political figures should never wield the sword because that would have opposed the U.S. liberation of France and the Holocaust concentration camps during World War II. bit.ly/4svsgL5 📸: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

@realmikolson @Homskuld77 I object. He is being ironic about your outline, not performing it.

@Homskuld77 You’re doing the thing I just outlined.

I’ve seen many comments from Roman Catholics over the past several days that go something like this: “Yeah, I think what the Pope is doing is wrong (cozying up to Islam), and it’s unsettling to me—but I can’t and won’t leave the Roman Church because of the Eucharist/the Mass.” This precisely highlights what I would argue is Rome’s trap. They’ve convinced—or confused—their members into believing the following sequence: 1. The Eucharist (Communion/the Lord’s Supper) is the actual, physical body and blood of Christ. The bread and wine ARE Jesus. 2. The Roman Catholic Church is the only true church (“the one true Church”), and therefore the only institution with the authority to “transubstantiate” the Eucharist into the physical body and blood of Jesus. 3. Taking the Eucharist at a Catholic Mass is how one primarily makes atonement for sin. Baptism, they claim, washes away “original sin,” wiping past transgressions from one’s record from the point in time of the baptism—but future sins must be cleansed through participation in the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, chief among them the Eucharist. In other words, they believe their eternal salvation is dependent on the Roman Catholic Church administering the Mass. Given that framework, it’s not hard to see why leaving the Roman Catholic Church would feel existentially dangerous to many adherents. If you’ve been taught that grace is uniquely dispensed through that institution—and that your ongoing forgiveness is tied to participation in its sacraments—then walking away doesn’t feel like switching churches; it feels like forfeiting access to Christ Himself. That creates a powerful psychological and spiritual dependency: the Church is no longer a guide for discipleship & a community of believers (a family of families), but the gatekeeper of salvation (right-standing before God) itself. In other words, you need their rituals, specifically, to go to heaven. From a structural standpoint, this system reinforces loyalty by raising the perceived cost of dissent to the highest possible level. I would argue that this isn’t incidental—it functions to preserve institutional authority by binding the individual’s eternal security to continued participation in that specific system. So when the Pope does something unbelievably wicked (as has happened many times in history, as it is now), what are the members of Rome to do? They must submit anyways. Does this sound like an honest, godly, or Christ-honoring institution/system?

@flowerlady61 Oh the humanity of it all

Yes many of us on the right are isolationist Catholic and oppose Israel. But most of us, including me, oppose Leo’s attempt to speak for all Catholics and brand us with a leftist partisan label that is so obviously designed to harm Trump and help Democrats. We reject this.

@Autarkh @Reuters

@Reuters Alt headline: Recent convert tells Pope how to do job.

Vice President JD Vance said Pope Leo should be careful when talking about theology, days after the pontiff emerged as a growing critic of the US-Israeli war on Iran

If an American politician can fly abroad and get involved in European politics, why can’t an American religious leader speak about issues in his own birth country? So let me get this straight: Vance hopping on a plane to Budapest to cozy up with Orbán and cheer on Hungary’s internal policies? Totally fine, patriotic even—‘diplomacy,’ you call it. But an American-born Pope (from Chicago, for crying out loud) daring to open his mouth about moral or social issues back home in the US? Suddenly it’s ‘stay in your lane, foreigner!’ Pick a lane, bestie. Either sovereign countries get to mind their own business and outsiders (especially Americans) should butt out of other nations’ politics… or everyone gets to have an opinion, including the Pope on America. You can’t have it both ways just because it suits your team this week. That’s not principle—that’s performative hypocrisy with extra sauce.

I respect you for answering, although DJT insisted we all get help in preventing the spread. To each his own. But, back to the concern and idolatry… I am not seeing the choice of getting medicine as worship, allegiance, obsession over a “being” or perceived deity. The antichrist has a spirit or soul of some sort. A sustained energy with a movement - not a lifeless vial. The real mark in Revelation is about choosing loyalty to the Antichrist. Different thing than a no-soul medication. Take care.

@mham413 @realDonaldTrump The Mark of the Beast already came through the vaccine 💉

Everybody needs to calm TF down❗️ John 14:12: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” I see @realDonaldTrump healing the sick and acknowledging GOD’s Army in the sky. No blasphemy here if that’s what you thought 🤦🏽‍♀️

@TRIBVNE1 @EWTNews @EWTN It breaks my heart to say, but sometimes saving a thread requires dropping truths that make the feelings crowd sigh dramatically :( (Reality’s not optional, even when it’s impolite.)

@mham413 @EWTNews @EWTN

A visibly moved Pope Leo, who calls himself “a son of Saint Augustine,” prayed among the ruins of Hippo in Annaba, Algeria, where the great Doctor of the Church served as bishop and shepherd for more than 30 years until his death. This may be one of the pope’s most personal moments in Africa, a quiet encounter with the roots of his own spiritual father.

Oh honey, bless your heart. So let me get this straight: Vance hopping on a plane to Budapest to cozy up with Orbán and cheer on Hungary’s internal policies? Totally fine, patriotic even—‘diplomacy,’ you call it. But an American-born Pope (from Chicago, for crying out loud) daring to open his mouth about moral or social issues back home in the US? Suddenly it’s ‘stay in your lane, foreigner!’ Pick a lane, bestie. Either sovereign countries get to mind their own business and outsiders (especially Americans) should butt out of other nations’ politics… or everyone gets to have an opinion, including the Pope on America. You can’t have it both ways just because it suits your team this week.

@mham413 @GuntherEagleman Oh my God this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. JD Vance’s VP vice president hello. He could be president. He has every right to talk about politics. And he’s a Catholic so he knows his theology. The pope is wrong in the situation.

JD Vance sharply responds to Pope Leo XIV: “When the Pope says God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is more than a thousand-year tradition of Just War Theory in Christianity.” “Just as I have to be careful when speaking about public policy as Vice President, the Pope should be very careful when speaking about theology.” “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, it must be anchored in truth. That’s what I strive for, and it’s exactly what we should expect from the clergy, Catholic or Protestant.”

Oh honey, bless your heart. So let me get this straight: Vance hopping on a plane to Budapest to cozy up with Orbán and cheer on Hungary’s internal policies? Totally fine, patriotic even—‘diplomacy,’ you call it. But an American-born Pope (from Chicago, for crying out loud) daring to open his mouth about moral or social issues back home in the US? Suddenly it’s ‘stay in your lane, foreigner!’ Pick a lane, bestie. Either sovereign countries get to mind their own business and outsiders (especially Americans) should butt out of other nations’ politics… or everyone gets to have an opinion, including the Pope on America. You can’t have it both ways just because it suits your team this week.

@mham413 AND......???? Is JD a politician????

WHO'S WITH ME? I WILL NOT DONATE ANOTHER PENNY TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS LONG AS POPE LEO THINKS AND ACTS LIKE A POLITICIAN...

@cspan And then there is the U.S.

Border czar Tom Homan, to question on Trump feud with Pope Leo XIV: "I'm speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic. I wish they'd stay out of immigration…If they understood the atrocities that happen on an open border, I think their opinion would change."

@ProjectLincoln Sly

Is Trump the Antichrist? Let's examine the evidence: againstallenemies.net/p/is-trump-the…

@RealWayneRoot And then again

JD Vance just officially won me over. Great job. Bravo. Tell the Pope to stick to religion and stay out of politics. Especially U.S. politics- mind your own business. You have enough problems of your own at Vatican- like pedophile priests. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/jd-van…

JD Vance ATTACKS Pope Leo: He said that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword. How can you say that? Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis? Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps?

@BeckyChernek @EricLDaugh @JDVance Just like Epstein Island happened, but carry on

@EricLDaugh Agreed @JDVance - this is exactly why it’s difficult to forgive Catholic priest for raping children! It happened!

🚨 JUST NOW — JD VANCE on POPE LEO: "He said that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword...how can you say that? [Was] God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?" "Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps and liberated those innocent people from those who had survived the Holocaust?" "I certainly think the answer is yes."