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@DouthatNYT Do you know what was said in the meeting? Is there a transcript? How do you make a statement like that without evidence?
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btw the Holy Father is not plotting against Donald Trump with David Axelrod (whose disabled daughter lives in a Catholic community in Chicago), for those who need to be told.
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Catholic Arena@CatholicArena
The photos of David Axelrod's meeting with the pope are out Axelrod's mysterious 'entourage' were just his family and Axelrod can be seen giving the pope some White Sox related photos Axelrod's daughter lives in a residential community run by the Catholic Church in Chicago
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@JoeValaNYC @Miabella4u @DavidAFrench @thescottbarber Funds were cancelled before the pope conflict .
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@Miabella4u @DavidAFrench @thescottbarber Respectfully disagreeing is different than making a comment that implies Catholics are the problem.
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@dan85895877 @DoobLontonder @liz_churchill10 Your profile name is false based on the definition of the words.
More importantly, it’s not my view.
Words have definitions and definitions are not malleable.
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@LarryBoorstein @dcexaminer The funds were pulled prior to the comments made by the pope retard.
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Only because Donald Trump is profoundly evil would he take away funding of Catholic Charities for humanitarian assistance housing migrant children because Pope Leo doesn't approve his war of aggression. Hurting children is what Trump does best. The United States Navy launched a double tap Tomahawk missile strike killing 168 Iranian schoolgirls ages 7-12 in Minab.
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Trump pulls millions from funding of Catholic Charities after war of words with Pope Leo trib.al/LRuEASf
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@dcexaminer False! The money was pulled prior to the popes comments.
Stop lying!
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@DavidJHarrisJr No tax dollars should be going to any religious group at all. End of story. Cancel all the non profits and NGOs as well.
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@IndThinker19 @DoobLontonder @liz_churchill10 A republic is a democracyThe only pure Republic is a direct democracy
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I understand the argument to increase reps, however, the government is to large as it is.
Instead, Mandate every person in congress and the senate must live in their actual district 90% of the year, allowing for 5 work days where the representatives can be in DC on consecutive days.
The incentives in DC create the bad behavior. Don’t reward bad behavior.
Also, immediate suspension and expulsion with loss of all benefits , subject to fines, civil & criminal prosecution in the event the rep is found guilty.
The bottom line is this: Private citizens are held to law to conduct themselves in a manner that society has deemed acceptable and are punished for violating the law. The Congress and Senate should be held to an even hire standard considering they directly impact significantly more lives with any devious and a single private citizen can ever impact over their lifetime. Therefore the penalties and punishment should be far more severe for violating the public’s trust.
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@DoobLontonder @dan85895877 @IndThinker19 @liz_churchill10 We should also drastically increase the amount of seats in the House of Reps. Hasn’t been changed in over a century now while the population has more than doubled in that time. Our reps are less and less attuned to their voters as the population grows.
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False. A republic is not a democracy. In fact, the founding fathers explicitly noted they didny want a democracy because of the potential abuse of power.
Classical Definitions (as Used by the Founders)
• Pure/Direct Democracy: Citizens assemble in person and vote directly on laws and policies. Majority rule decides outcomes with few filters.
James Madison in Federalist No. 10 described it as “a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.” He viewed it as prone to faction (groups pursuing self-interest at others’ expense), instability, “turbulence and contention,” and threats to minority rights or property. Pure democracies were historically short-lived and limited to small territories (like ancient Athens). 
• Republic: A representative system where citizens elect officials to make laws on their behalf. It includes a constitution or framework of laws that limits government power, protects individual rights, and filters majority passions through deliberation and checks.
Madison defined a republic as “a government in which the scheme of representation takes place,” with two key advantages over pure democracy: (1) delegation to elected representatives, and (2) the ability to extend over a large territory and population. This reduces the risk of mob rule or factional tyranny. 
The Founders explicitly rejected pure democracy while embracing republican principles. The U.S. Constitution never uses the word “democracy” but guarantees to every state “a Republican Form of Government” (Article IV, Section 4). Benjamin Franklin reportedly called the new government “a Republic, if you can keep it.” 
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@DoobLontonder @IndThinker19 @itsedsilha @liz_churchill10 a republic is a democracy and changing thev electoral college by this method is a bad idea. the battlefield states are fairly representative of the nation as a whole.
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False. The solution would and always is an amendment to the constitution which happens if congress is working as it was designed to. SCOTUS rulings were never intended to rule the land. That’s a false idea and premise. That’s why there should be incentives and penalties that congress and senate are subject to for failing to compete their duties fully and completely.
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@femboiology @IndThinker19 @liz_churchill10 That's the other side of the argument. Just like any other good controversy, there are two ways to look at it. Ultimately, it WILL be decided by SCOTUS if they ever reach their threshold. They may be close, but COS has been very close several times, and yet we have never had 1.
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@StrategicWin5 @DailyWinne59667 @David378346 @joelpollak And projecting your opinion as fact is mentally retarded.
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@DailyWinne59667 @David378346 @IndThinker19 @joelpollak I’m being totally honest. He felt humiliated and flipped out
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@ericmetaxas The Catholic Church has been captured for years now by the Elites and globalist. Where the hell have you been???
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Every Catholic should be screaming for an investigation into what looks like leftist corruption infiltrating the church. This deserves answers.
David J Harris Jr@DavidJHarrisJr
🚨So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left. And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing. All organically, I'm sure. Thoughts?
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As a Catholic Priest you should know better then to make this stupid remark.
What Papal Infallibility Actually Means
The Church does not claim that the pope is personally infallible in everything he says or does. It is a very limited charism (gift) from the Holy Spirit that protects the Church from error in specific circumstances. The pope is not:
• Sinless (impeccable) — Popes can and do sin, just like anyone else.
• Inspired like the biblical authors (infallibility is not about new revelation).
• Infallible in private opinions, casual remarks, scientific or political matters, or even most official teachings.
Instead, infallibility applies only when the pope speaks ex cathedra (“from the chair” of St. Peter). According to Pastor Aeternus (Chapter 4), this occurs when:
1. He speaks in his official capacity as supreme pastor and teacher of all Christians.
2. He defines (makes a definitive, binding pronouncement) a doctrine.
3. The doctrine concerns faith or morals (not discipline, governance, or other topics).
4. He intends the teaching to be held by the whole Church (universal).
In such rare cases, the pope “possesses… that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed” and the definition is “irreformable of itself” (not dependent on later Church approval).
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Pour que les choses soient claires : comme pretre catholique il est de mon devoir de dire au vice-président Vance,dont je connais les qualités qu’il n’a pas le droit comme catholique de donner ordre au Pape de se taire, ni d’invoquer les questions de moralité., avec des sous entendus désagréables. Comme vice-président, il peut bien évidemment invoquer la notion de guerre juste sans qu’il soit nécessaire de médire sur la moralité de l’Eglise. Je ne rajouterai plus rien sur cette question.
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@IndThinker19 @RealDonKeith But they won’t know what the gap is they have to fill
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What Papal Infallibility Actually Means
The Church does not claim that the pope is personally infallible in everything he says or does. It is a very limited charism (gift) from the Holy Spirit that protects the Church from error in specific circumstances. The pope is not:
• Sinless (impeccable) — Popes can and do sin, just like anyone else.
• Inspired like the biblical authors (infallibility is not about new revelation).
• Infallible in private opinions, casual remarks, scientific or political matters, or even most official teachings.
Instead, infallibility applies only when the pope speaks ex cathedra (“from the chair” of St. Peter). According to Pastor Aeternus (Chapter 4), this occurs when:
1. He speaks in his official capacity as supreme pastor and teacher of all Christians.
2. He defines (makes a definitive, binding pronouncement) a doctrine.
3. The doctrine concerns faith or morals (not discipline, governance, or other topics).
4. He intends the teaching to be held by the whole Church (universal).
In such rare cases, the pope “possesses… that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed” and the definition is “irreformable of itself” (not dependent on later Church approval).
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@StrategicWin5 @HumbIeSatBoy @joelpollak Sure… standing up for 90% of Americans who have no voice and are being censored by the elites is always about the person defending others constitutional rights..
Keep digging that hole.
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@HumbIeSatBoy @IndThinker19 @joelpollak It was genuine in the sense his petty feelings were hurt yes
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Hence, you have the ballots ready to go and can calculate what would be just enough to make it look close but not obvious that you’re cheating. Zuckerberg literally had the percentage and actual votes needed for democrats to win in all the various precincts around the country in close elections… they even had articles written about how Facebook and google can swing elections by censorship and by putting negative search results on the first page of search versus putting those same negative stories in later search results.
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@IndThinker19 @RealDonKeith But what the Democrats like to do is see how many ballots they need to win and just shoot a little over
Also, if they start going through the true process and guarantee at only certain ballots are absent T balance it will stop some of this
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Yea and they lied for their own personal gain. One is a cnn contributor who is being paid to push anti Trump everything and the other now gets goverment grants from NGOs to push anti Trump everything. No conflict of interest at all.
Listen, you’re a joke buddy. You don’t know anything and you should just hope that own country gets their act together.
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@IndThinker19 @grok @David378346 @joelpollak These were aides with a long history of honor and integrity. It’s exactly the type of thing Trump would say. The laptop issue, sprung at the end of a campaign and did look extraordinary to begin with, is a a totally different type of issue
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