Charlie’s Kirk was excited but those tweets by the Cardinal talking about love thy neighbor turned him off.
Kirk mused that perhaps an American pope had been selected because “they want a voice that is also for the opening of American borders while we have President Trump!”
These Christians really don’t like all love talk.
Right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly, who was initially thrilled over the election of an American Pope, later wondered if it was “too much to hope that some 20-year-old ran the new pope’s X account and he never looked at it?”
Having ‘mused’ that, I’d think Kirk would even accidentally turn his mind just a touch to the left and realize that a strong, compassionate voice from a Christian bully pulpit, speaking for all and especially for countries south of the border (Francis served in Argentina, Leo XIV served in Peru, btw), could help stir up the kind of change that would mitigate the need for people to migrate north. No thoughts possible from Kirk (he’s an idiot) on the CIA’s decades long role in supporting dictatorships there that drove and still drive northward escapes to—until more recently—freedom and justice.
Since the death of Pope Pius XII… the same pope who, during WWII, remained silent on the Holocaust as it was in progress and which he was well aware of . Quite the pope to use as an example of a pope they could live with.
Genuinely has anyone ever been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn’t like you
I don’t know why I find this hilarious, but I do… like, priests, bishops, cardinals, popes are people and do people things. But somehow this tickles me.
Almost my entire family were/are bigoted reactionaries. I have a couple cool cousins, but it took an attempted robbery by a white guy, and being rescued by a Black man for mom’s mom to get over her racism. Mom and I felt like freaks while I was growing up, dealing w/family gatherings. Ugh.
Yeah, that interview that @mindysan33 posted with the middle brother (John) was sweet, but you could tell that John didn’t really want to speak about what his older sibling in Florida thought about the youngest becoming a Pope. Now, I can see why the reluctance. Eeesh.
