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With Cardinal Tagle ~ “On the evening of Saturday, April 18, at the apostolic nunciature in Luanda, the Pope met privately and dined with the bishops of Angola.” (Eng. Trans) 📸(04.18.26)
The cardinals traveling with Pope Leo XIV in Equatorial Guinea today
What a reception Pope Leo XIV received at the Catholic University of Central Africa, in Yaoundé, Cameroon!
Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon: “Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”
Reporter: Why did you attack Pope Leo? Trump: I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime I guess. We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a fan of Pope Leo.
It’s wild. “In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. “America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side. “As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon…
A tiny fraction of American Catholics, mostly in Catholic media, know who the papal nuncio is. This was a humanizing moment for Vance. A totally normal and good response to this question.
