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Showing posts with label Pope Leo XIV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Leo XIV. Show all posts
Saturday, May 10, 2025
American Divide
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Cartoons,
Donald Trump,
Pope Leo XIV
Friday, May 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
As I'd predicted, the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, was a cardinal that wasn't in the pundit list.
A quote from an AP news article:
Vatican watchers said Prevost’s decision to name himself Leo was significant given the previous Leo’s legacy of social justice and reform, suggesting continuity with some of Francis’ chief concerns.
Not just the AP, I said this yesterday, and in spades. In fact, as a Distributist, Pope Leo XIII is one of my absolute favorite recent Popes. He was an ardent opponent of communism and capitalism.
Some headlines:
NEWLY ELECTED POPE
FIRST FROM US
From the Star Tribune.
MAGA Melts Down Over New Pope's Anti-Trump, Pro-Immigrant Social Media
Rolling Stone
This will be interesting. There was, yesterday, a flood of negative comments about Pope Leo from the mostly non Catholic populist far right. I suspect that a hidden anti Catholicism in that quarter will really start to surface.
Indeed, Pope Leo being an American poses a real challenge to the isolationist, nationalistic MAGA populist elements now in power, as well as the pretending to be isolationist, nationalistic and MAGA fellow travelers. Some have already wondered if that's part of the reason that he was chosen as Pope, but that will not be known for years, if ever. At any rate, right now, it's really interesting to note that the US is lead by a not very smart almost octogenarian who has shown aggressiveness and extreme nativism, while global Christianity will be lead by a highly educated catholic concerned for the poor, who as a Cardinal corrected J. D. Vance's odd comments about an order of mercy.
This leads, I suppose to noting that Pope Leo is, at this point, nearly as Peruvian as he is American. But as noted, the Catholic Church is catholic, i.e., universal. It's concerns are for humanity, not a narrow section of the American public. But Pope Leo might serve to remind Americans of what the United States has, in its better moments, stood for.
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Apostolic Christianity,
Catholic,
Christianity,
Commentary,
Donald Trump,
Peru,
Pope Leo XIII,
Pope Leo XIV,
Populism,
religion,
Zeitgeist
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Conclave
Conclave: late Middle English (denoting a private room): via French from Latin conclave ‘lockable room’, from con- ‘with’ + clavis ‘key’.
May 7, 2025
Today is the start of the Conclave to choose the 267th Pope, the head of Apostolic Christianity.
Cont:
As a note, nobody has a clue who will be picked to be the next Pope, in spite of all the rampaging speculation and commentary.
Cont:
First vote, no Pope selected.
May 8, 2025
The vote this morning did not result in the election of a new Pope.
Cont:
White smoke. A new Pope has been chosen.
Cont:
Robert Cardinal Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV.
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Apostolic Christianity,
Catholic,
Conclave,
Middle English,
Pope Leo XIV,
religion,
Trying to learn Latin
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