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@Pontifex If Christian nations would have disarmed themselves, the US would not even exist... and neither would the Vatican.

Let us reject the logic of violence and war, and embrace peace founded on love and justice—an unarmed peace, not based on fear, threats or weapons. This peace is disarming, because it is capable of resolving conflicts, opening hearts, and generating trust, empathy, and hope. I strongly reiterate: The world thirsts for #Peace! Enough of war and all the pain it causes through death, destruction, and exile! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

@TaylorRMarshall Then why do ya'll get so mad when we say this pope is bad and wrong? Are we only allowed to say that 100 years after he dies?

Protestants: “Ya know, there were several BAD POPES!” Do you honestly think we Catholics don’t know that? Our faith is in Christ the Savior. Popes can and do disappoint. Some popes are great. Some aren't. All Catholics acknowledge this.

@LethalHoliness @therealgrantmay Ah, yes... the Catholic world is known as a bastion of free markets, social conservatism, and Marxist-free countries and societies.

@therealgrantmay Protestantism creates the environment and vacuum for Marxism and leftism. Quit the cope.

I love my Catholic brothers and sisters, but the LARP that Protestant, evangelical churches are responsible for leftism is simply not true. Evangelicals are consistently further right on issues of homosexuality, immigration, and abortion than their Catholic brothers and sisters

@wild_one1998 I disagree with you about "most woke", but yes, I agree, we do have the most migrants. It's very common - migrants come to benefit from our success... then 5 minutes later tell us we should be more like the countries they fled.

Protestants not realizing that Protestant countries are the most woke and have the most migrants 🤡🤡

@sull1vannolan @Geiger_Capital Are you criticizing them or complimenting them?

@Geiger_Capital Easy to do if everyone drops out of school at 8th grade and your community gifts you interest-free loans for a house.

New study on the Amish in America… ~10,000 women Only 4% are childless. Only 9% have less than 3 children. The average number of children is 7.2

@RedemTheTimes Well, out of the groups taking procreation seriously, I'm rooting for the Amish.

If all fertility rates remain constant, and assuming no net migration, the USA will be majority Amish in ~150 years.

@maicononze11 @jardiniernormie So, I don't think this conflict with Iran was a good idea. But, what you said is also objectively false. Global deaths used to be a lot worse... civil war, ww2, European wars, etc. The overall trend through the centuries has been fewer per capita conflicts and deaths, not more.

@jmacswfl @jardiniernormie I understand that. But conflict is getting worse, as time moves on. Not better!

No, he didn't. He said "conflicts never solve anything." then he said "those who pray do not kill." Both of these are obviously false statements, and the scandal caused by them is entirely of the Pope's making. He could have been more careful with his words. He wasn't.

@maicononze11 @jocalex8 @jardiniernormie Then maybe the Pope should not have posted this. I think the first sentence and the last one are false. The first one is spiritual, so you can 'interpret' it however you like. The last one is historically, objectively false - so much so that it's absurd. x.com/Pontifex/statu…

@jocalex8 @jardiniernormie Today's conflict ain't nothing like it was before

@maicononze11 @jardiniernormie Without violent conflict, most, if not all, existing countries would not exist, including the US and the Vatican. That's an objective fact. According to you, George Washington was in the wrong during the US revolution. He prayed and killed.

@jardiniernormie I mean... Conflicts usually breed more conflict. And yeah, those who pray do not kill! or at least they shouldn't!

@BillArnoldTeach It's funny. Like all migrants, Catholics think America would be better if it became more like the countries they fled... why aren't you in one of the many Catholic countries making them "greater"?

America is great, but She’ll be greater as a Catholic nation.

@BraedenSorbo @LeadingReport Except he 'literally' said something completely different than what you say he 'literally' said.

@LeadingReport It’s crazy that Pope Leo literally just said that unjust war is wrong, and people are mad at him

Fox News’ Sean Hannity wonders if Pope Leo XIV has “even read the Bible” in response to his anti-conflict stance. “Has he ever heard of David and Goliath?”

@jmhorp Haha. You say "The End" after your own chart proves my point.

@jmacswfl You asked for the average number of children at age 45, and I provided it. The End.

While the number of 30-year-old women with children has fallen dramatically from 90% in the 1960s to under 50% today, still about 90% of women eventually have children by the end of their child-bearing years. It's actually higher today than in the 1990s and early 2000s

@realCarola2Hope I don't know what the actual statistics are, but any chart that looks like that is fake. I know that for sure.

The future is Catholic.

@jmhorp Yes... and the ones born >= 1990 are falling behind. We'll see if they catch up.

@jmacswfl US women born in 1980 -- the latest cohort to reach age 45 -- have exceeded 2.1 children on average

@Catholic_bro @frankmartin1954 @Pontifex First, you don't know that. Second, the Pope wasn't just talking about "this conflict", which I have questions about myself. He said "any conflict". That is very obviously a false biblical teaching.

@frankmartin1954 @Pontifex Yes God commanded Israel to carry out his judgement He’s giving no such command to the US

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

@margot39538 @PowerOwn45 Sure, specifically calling on political leaders to more equitably distribute wealth isn't political at all, assumes no 'policy'... and has nothing to do with "redistributing". Whatever you say.

The Church isn’t taxing anyone or redistributing wealth. It teaches moral principles about charity and justice. How those principles get applied in policy is a separate question, and Catholics are free to disagree on that. You’re arguing against government action, not against the Church’s teaching.

I meant it when I said I don’t have anything against Catholics. Hell I wrote one in for POTUS in the last election. But when you tell me I can’t have an opinion about a Pope who is all too willing to share his opinion about America, I’m gonna act like an American and speak my opinion in a louder voice. Blessing a block of ice in the name of climate change is stupid. Echoing economically illiterate talking points about how wealth should be distributed is stupid. The Pope is a man. He is not above critique. If you want to pretend that he’s not, fine, but don’t get butthurt when pushback comes.

@margot39538 @PowerOwn45 It's theft if it forces redistribution from one person to another person under the threat of violence and punishment if you fail to comply.

You’re collapsing charity and justice into the same thing. Charity is a personal virtue, justice is about how a society is ordered. The Church has always taught both. Supporting laws that help the poor isn’t theft, it’s part of how justice can be structured, even if you disagree with the policy.

@margot39538 @PowerOwn45 I know you 'believe' that it is "charity" when money is stolen under threat of violence and given to someone else... You believe something that isn't true. It isn't charity, it's theft. Again, thank God our founders didn't agree with people like you.

No one’s denying the Church had political influence at times. That’s not the claim. The question is where its teaching on charity comes from, and you’re switching that to “it had power”. Those aren’t the same. And calling on governments to act isn’t a distortion of charity, it’s part of applying it beyond just private behavior.

@margot39538 @PowerOwn45 The Catholic church was absolutely intertwined politically and had tremendous political power (not just spiritually), not only in Rome, but throughout Europe. If you deny that, I can't help you. Also, calling on governments to act is not "teaching on charity".

The Church isn’t a Roman government, and its teaching on charity didn’t come from chasing power, it comes from the Gospel. In fact, the institutions that cared for the poor long before modern states, hospitals, orphanages, relief systems, came out of that tradition, not in spite of it.

@margot39538 @PowerOwn45 The Roman government (Catholic Church) taught those things because, like all central governments, they loved power and authority. Thank God, our founders rejected it and it led to prosperity the world had never seen, providing more for the poor than any Catholic nation ever has.

Jesus didn’t limit charity to private feelings. We are our brother’s keeper has social consequences. The Church has always taught both personal charity and just structures because broken systems keep people poor no matter how generous individuals are…. he’s just doing his job, and since you’re not Catholic, it doesn’t really apply to you.