Topkick
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This. My thoughts are...isn't God supposed to be the top dog? I'm not questioning anyone and I understand the catholic religion because I have it in my family, but just never could get past this part of it.
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ThunderHorse
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Pope is a key part of Catholic structure. But we don't worship him, and we don't also believe that he has a phone line direct to god like Mormons believe their president does. Just do good works, accept Jesus Christ as your savior, and confess your sins. It's not a big thing.
Being Catholic is being Christian. Catholicism is not a religion. Was it the main form of Christianity for a significant portion of early Christianity? Yes.
Being Pope is just being the ecclesiastical leader. The Vatican being a country has a lot of historical significance, but it's meant to be a neutral place a bit like Switzerland.
Dude, going to Catholic School is probably the thing that made me become an atheist/Non-religious. Going to Tuesday/Thursday Mass during school and then a Presbyterian service with my grandparents on Sunday just made some of the Catholic stuff seem extra weird, which led further to comparisons amongst other sects/religions.
Anyways, Laura Loomer says the new Pope is a woke Trump-hating commie, but apparently he's also a homophobe who hates abortion; I'm waiting for the liberal hive mind to tell me what to think about him*. /s
*He seems like every Chicago Catholic I've ever met. Probably shoots malort on Saturday and confesses on Sunday
Topkick
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Potato, potato....
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Florida173
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What did Trump do to get an American to be the next Pope?
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Clearly it was a clever bid by the Vatican Cardinals to try and avoid Trumps 10% tariff on indulgences. Sarc
"'Their prayers clearly worked better than the pope’s,' bragged Trump, who is a strong supporter of the U.S. prayer industrial complex."
Vance killed the last one, and the others got the message. Obvi.
ThunderHorse
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All these exclusives and all these negative headlines...
White House to take choice of Pentagon chief of staff out of Hegseth’s hands
The crazy thing about this stuff is this is how these publications cratered themselves into being the National Enquirer, hanging by a thread and hoping you'd donate.
White House to take choice of Pentagon chief of staff out of Hegseth’s hands
The crazy thing about this stuff is this is how these publications cratered themselves into being the National Enquirer, hanging by a thread and hoping you'd donate.
Kraut783
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So, is the Vatican going to take in immigrants/ refugees? Or just preach about immigration……
ThunderHorse
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Leo chatting about Immigration already? Or we referring to Francis nonsense? Vatican citizenship is incredibly exclusive. It's tied to work status and if you live in the Vatican, so if you are non-Clergy that gets revoked the moment you move out. Children of Vatican employees have citizenship if they reside in the Vatican, but they only hold that citizenship for as long as they live there. Pretty exclusive passport.
Kraut783
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"Leo chatting about Immigration already?"
Not yet, but it's on the horizon...
Pope Leo unhappy with US immigration policy and won’t stay silent, brother says
Not yet, but it's on the horizon...
Pope Leo unhappy with US immigration policy and won’t stay silent, brother says
John Prevost says his brother is middle-of-the-road but shares Pope Francis’s concerns about Trump’s policyPope Leo unhappy with US immigration policy and won’t stay silent, brother says
ThunderHorse
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Ah yes, guy's brother wants 15 minutes of fame. Gonna be great, this will be a very American Papacy then. His whole family will yap. Maybe because Francis was from Argentina, but I don't remember his family trying to get theirs. Sigh.
But yes, I could give a rip. I have a lot of empathy for people wanting a better life, my grandfather chose to serve in Korea and it changed the whole outlook for his eventual family. The Army allowed me to get an education and be in a different place than my father. However, the dangers of trying to come here are so well publicized it's clear that the risks are somehow still worth the reward for them. Yet the volume of people illegally immigrating are not people who want to be American either. So...they don't have my sympathy.
Kraut783
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Browsing and ran across this t-shirt at the online Airborne & Special Operations Museum store....
^I think the jury's still out on this one , but I thought the meme was in line with your earlier post ;)
Hahaha I just saw it and laughed and laughed.
This is just sort of an observation- but how impatient and petulant have we all become? The instant gratification culture has led to what we are seeing here. People are so narcissistic to not even wait to see if something works, they just make these wild conclusions 2 seconds after a story breaks and the consider they matter closed.
Epstein files, Diddy list, J6 investigation, immigration, Russia/UIkraine war, India/Pakistan war, economy... people decide what's their very high bar for what they expect the admin to do, and the second they don't see their own personal whims gratified with a public statement, they doom post their cynicism as if it's fact and bemoan the Orange Man with no willingness to just wait for even 30 days and see what the outputs are.
I get it, for sure, in the context of "you said you were going to do a thing so do the thing", but here are 100 things, all at once, with goalposts that are constantly moving. It's just a weird world we live in.
Great quote from Sam Sneed on the airplane gift from Qatar (Douglas Murray punching the air rn). And just like that- the left is now against... foreign governments giving America free stuff? IDK.
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