Miguel Perry

@ProtecttheFaith Dhimmi

Pope Leo honours a mosque by taking off his shoes signalling he considers it a sacred space Religious indifferentism is expressed in a hundred and one ways

@TaylorRMarshall John XII, Benedict IX, Alexander VI, Urban VI, Stephen VI, Leo X, Innocent VIII, and Sergius III thank you for your kind words.

Popes have more authority than Presidents and Kings. Always have. Peter > Caesar

@andrew_leach And?

He has economics degrees from Harvard and Oxford and has led two G7 central banks. Two.

@FatherChrisVor1 Dhimmi.

The Pope removed his shoes in a mosque and people are outraged? That’s not compromise. That’s basic respect. If you enter someone’s home or sacred space, you honor their customs. We expect it in our churches. Why pretend not to understand it anywhere else?

I lived in the third world. I know a third-world country when I see one. This is third-world campaigning, by a third-world group of people, most likely somewhere that is turning into a third-world shithole. You just don't walk around screaming like a fucking lunatic. There are ill people resting at home. There are people grieving the loss of a loved one, and so many other reasons why you don't do this shit in a civilised society. It's perfectly clear Britain needs mass deportations.

Turkey is an illegal settler colony on stolen Greek land formed as a result of genocide and ethnic cleansing of millions of Greeks and Armenians. It's not a country, it's an ongoing crime.

@jamestalarico Smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

@petermlaffin Leo attacked Trump by name in his remarks and urged voters to call their "congressmen." Of course that's going to get pushback from the administration. And it should. Because that isn't simply voicing general principles of the faith. It's politicking.

Really important for some to understand: Catholics hate this because he attacked the Pope personally, not because he disagrees with the Pope on Iran or anything else (I do in some instances as well). They also hate the blasphemy in Trump's picture of himself as Jesus.

@bradleybirzer If anyone believe that there has been a valid pope since 1958 they haven't been paying attention.

If any Catholic still supports Trump after the last two days, he or she simply isn't paying attention.

@alexathallow x.com/peterschweizer…

I stand with Pope Leo in all things.

@EWTNews Leo cited the president by name in his remarks and urged voters to call their "congressmen." Of course that's going to get pushback from the administration. And it should. Because that isn't simply voicing principles of the faith. It's politicking.

BREAKING: Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane to Algeria on Monday, Pope Leo XIV said: “I think that the people who read will be able to draw their own conclusions: I am not a politician, I have no intention of entering into a debate with him. Rather, let us always seek peace and put an end to wars. I am not afraid of the Trump administration. I speak about the Gospel, I am not a politician. I do not think the message of the Gospel should be abused in the way some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war, to try to promote peace, multilateral dialogue between states in order to seek the right solution to problems. The message of the Church is the message of the Gospel, blessed are the peacemakers; I do not see my role as that of a politician, I do not want to enter into a debate with him. Too many people are suffering in the world.”

@catholickelsey Leo cited the president by name in his remarks and urged voters to call their "congressmen." Of course that's going to get pushback from the administration. And it should. Because that isn't simply voicing principles of the faith. It's politicking.

There is no doubt that President Trump’s post insulting Pope Leo crossed, again, a line of decorum that plays an important part in diplomacy and sets the temperature for interactions between the two. Calls for an apology are well founded. But we also need to reasonably evaluate the Vatican-vs.-Trump narrative: too many people are trying to turn a public disagreement into a grand showdown between the two. That is false, and Catholics should reject it. Archbishop Paul Coakley and Pope Leo himself, this morning, made the key point clear: the Pope is not a politician, not a partisan operator, and not a rival to the President of the United States. He is the Vicar of Christ. His role is to speak moral truth, defend human dignity, and call leaders to pursue peace. The President needs to hear that in a way he understands. Of course, some of the Pope’s statements may sound out of step with the tone, assumptions, or priorities of American politics. Fine. That does not mean he is “anti-American.” It does not mean he is attacking the United States. And it certainly does not mean Catholics should be manipulated into choosing between the Church and their country. The Pope also needs to understand that many Americans view his interventions as overtly political and aligned with one side of the political spectrum. Catholics who have been paying attention note that no such condemnation of the loss of life through abortion ever came from Rome to Catholic President Joe Biden during the last pontificate, despite that evil ending millions of lives. Enter Ambassador Brian Burch. As the founder and first president of CatholicVote, and now as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Burch is uniquely positioned to serve as a credible bridge between Washington and Rome. He understands the convictions, language, and concerns on both sides, and that gives him an especially important role at a moment when honest mediation, fair translation, and cooler heads are urgently needed. What American Catholics should oppose is the deliberate effort to manufacture a large-scale confrontation between the Vatican and the United States, between Pope Leo and President Trump, or between fidelity to the Holy Father and love of country. Parts of the media are pushing that narrative. So are identifiable bad actors, including some inside the Church. They want conflict. They feed on confusion. And they benefit from division. Catholics should be smarter than that. There is no reason this disagreement should become a larger rupture. But it will if reckless voices keep treating every papal statement as a partisan attack and every political disagreement as proof of betrayal. Once again, we must delineate between moral principles and the realm of politics. But for now, let’s pray for wisdom for both leaders. And do not let others manufacture a conflict that does not have to exist.

Whenever you see a bizarre trend in academia, it’s worth asking whether its homegrown or funded from outside. I recently wrote about how the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has worked hard to make “trans studies" a legitimate academic field. Here are some of Mellon's grants 🧵

Starting tomorrow at the Vatican, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is hosting its 2026 plenary on “The Uses of Power: Legitimacy, Democracy, and the Rewriting of the International Order.” If you read the concept note for the plenary (which I linked below), the guiding premise is that we’re currently experiencing a global crisis involving the weakening of liberal democracy and the postwar “rules-based international order” (including institutions like the United Nations), which, according to them, is no longer stable or sufficient to secure global peace through international cooperation. So the central question of the plenary seems to be: what actually legitimates political power? The concept note explicitly invokes Hegel (because of course it does) and his critique of Kant’s idea that an international federation of states (the same idea behind the formation of the League of Nations and later the UN) was necessary to prevent war and peacefully resolve international disputes based on shared legal principles. Hegel’s critique (articulated in his “Philosophy of Right”) was that international law and a federation of states cannot actually guarantee lasting peace because individual sovereign states retain final authority on whether or not they participate and will ultimately act according to their own interests. So, if we really want lasting peace, an international federation of states can only achieve that if they have a coercive unity binding them and limiting their national sovereignty. They must answer to some ultimate moral authority. And, according to the people participating in this plenary, their solution for everyone is a New World Order driven by a universal moral framework informed by Catholic Social Teaching, which they seem to be suggesting is both necessary and inevitable. The list of speakers and their respective talks is of course not reassuring.

The Old Sacramento one-room schoolhouse with wood-burning stove. It was a replica made for the 1976 U.S. bicentennial. It was demolished in 2025 to make way for a new "Native-American themed play area to honor the region's indigenous heritage."

@Mark_E_Noonan Do, you are saying Leo isn't merely a left-wing hack, he's a coward.

Do keep in mind, guys, that if the Pope - or any senior Church leader - were to forcefully condemn Islam or even a Muslim action it would mean scores of Christians being murdered in retaliation. This does play a role in how things are presented.

@Pontifex Are you one of the priests who diddled little boys? Or one of the priests who covered up the diddling.

Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here, in #Algeria, the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children, within our rich diversity, in our shared aspiration for dignity, love, justice, and peace. In a world where division and wars sow pain and death, living in unity and peace is a compelling sign. #ApostolicJourney

@FeserEdward At the same time Leo is attacking the U.S., he is praising Algeria. He's not a man of faith. He's just another anti-American left-wing activist. x.com/peterschweizer…

The present moment is revealing people’s true loyalties. The pope is the spiritual father of all Catholics. In a family, even when you disagree with your father, you rally to his defense when he is attacked by an outsider. And if you don’t, there is something very wrong with you.

@USCCB Keo cited the president by name in his remarks and urged voters to call their "congressmen." Of course that's going to get pushback from the administration. And it should. Because that isn't simply voicing principles of the faith. It's politicking.

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, President, USCCB @ArchbishopOKC

@robertsirico At the same time he's attacking the United States, Leo is praising Algeria. He's not a man of faith. He's just another anti-American leftist. x.com/peterschweizer…

The Holy Father, as Vicar of Christ, has both the right and the duty to speak prophetically on matters of war and peace, the dignity of the human person, and the moral limits of force—even when his words discomfort political leaders. Catholics are not obliged to treat every prudential judgment of the Pope on foreign policy or crime as infallible; the Church herself teaches that such applications of principle admit of legitimate debate (cf. Catechism 2420; Centisimus Annus 43). At the same time, the President of the United States—especially one elected to restore law and order—should model the respect due to the spiritual father of more than a billion Catholics worldwide. Labeling Pope Leo ‘weak’ or ‘terrible’ does not strengthen America’s moral standing; it merely fuels division. Strong national defense, secure borders, and the rule of law are not only compatible with Catholic teaching—they flow from the very principles of justice and subsidiarity that the Church has long defended. As an American and a priest, I have insisted that the Church must speak for the vulnerable, including immigrants, even when enforcement policies are necessary. But the Church’s mission is not to micromanage Pentagon strategy or crime bills. Let the Holy Father preach the Gospel of life and peace upholding a horizon toward which all people can be drawn and let the President govern according to the oath he took before God and the Constitution.