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I just wish he would consult Melania before he makes posts.

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Why torch 70 million Catholic votes?

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I know a couple ex-priests who will tell you that 75% is probably a low or conservative estimate.

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Congrats, Bobby. You crawled out of Chicago, spent your life as an Augustinian missionary in Peru pretending to care about the poor, and somehow landed the big chair by promising the Davos crowd you’d keep the rainbow-flag interfaith grift alive. First American pope? More like the first pope who treats the Vatican like a UN diversity seminar with better real estate. You didn’t get elected by the Holy Spirit; you got installed by the same people who think “tolerance” means letting everyone pray except the people who built the damn place.

And then you actually did it. You carved out a Muslim prayer room inside the Vatican Apostolic Library. A carpet, some qibla stickers, and boom — the home of every single manuscript that preserved Western civilization now has a designated corner for the ummah to bow toward Mecca. On papal turf. While Christians are getting slaughtered in half the countries these scholars come from. That’s not “dialogue,” you spineless wonder. That’s surrender with extra incense.

That’s turning the throne of St. Peter into a participation trophy for every ideology that wants Christianity dead.

Your church spent half a million on a solid-gold Fisherman’s Ring so people can kiss your glorified class ring, but you’re perfectly fine letting strangers roll out prayer rugs five feet from the archives that survived Attila the Hun. Priceless, indeed. The Church spent centuries fighting off Islamic conquest at Lepanto and Vienna, and you just handed them a quiet room and a polite “no shoes, please.” Bold move for a guy whose entire brand is “humble servant.” Humble enough to let Islam set up shop, apparently. Not humble enough to ditch the $3,000 silk stole and the red mozzetta cape, though — gotta look fabulous while you sell out.

You’re not a pope. You’re a corporate consultant in religious drag. A globalist hall monitor who thinks the greatest threat to humanity isn’t the erosion of the faith that built the West — it’s mean tweets and Latin Mass attendees. Keep clutching your pearls and your interfaith talking points while the actual faithful watch their ancestral Church get turned into a theme park for every religion except the one that actually owns it.

Robert Prevost, you didn’t just fail upward.

You turned the Chair of Peter into a participation award for the people who want it empty.

And history’s going to remember you exactly as you are: the fake pope who gave Islam a prayer rug and Christianity the middle finger

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TRUMP: "It's HER who's unacceptable, because she doesn't care if Iran has a NUCLEAR WEAPON and would BLOW UP Italy in 2 minutes if they had a chance!"

Wow, Trump's taking no prisoners, even Meloni

Sticking to his guns

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These are the same enlightened souls who:

- Championed the industrial-scale harvesting of unborn children with all the moral gravity of ordering takeout.

- Cheered when nuns were dragged into court for the unforgivable crime of refusing to violate their faith.

- Nodded along enthusiastically as confused minors were chemically and surgically altered to appease their parents’ need for trendy validation.

- Built literal media shrines to Barack Obama, Anthony Fauci, and Robert Mueller — secular saints whose every utterance was treated as gospel while any Trump aide who dared mention Jesus was mocked as a backwoods theocrat.

- Spent four years sneering at anyone in the Trump administration who spoke openly about God, as if faith were an embarrassing tic best kept private.

- Applauded the shuttering of churches and the criminalization of religious assembly during COVID, because public health apparently outranks the First Amendment and the sacraments.

- Cultivated a sophisticated, cocktail-party contempt for orthodox Christians and Catholics — those embarrassing rubes who still believed their doctrines actually meant something.

- Reserved special venom for Pope Benedict XVI, the most intellectually formidable pontiff in generations, because nothing threatens faux-progressive piety like actual coherent theology.

- Enthusiastically embraced every sexual innovation the Bible explicitly lists as sin, then acted shocked when someone quoted the text back to them.

- Maintained a pious silence while Iranian mullahs slaughtered their own people and Christians were butchered, enslaved, and driven from their ancient homelands across the Muslim world — because condemning actual religious persecution might complicate the narrative.

And now, suddenly, these champions of secularism discover the Gospel. Not to examine their own record, of course. That would require inconvenient self-reflection. No — they weaponize it as a political cudgel against their enemies, while Pope Leo (or whichever convenient clerical voice fits the moment) is trotted out to sanctify purely partisan aims.

It’s not faith. It’s cosplay.

It’s not conviction. It’s convenience.

A theological LARP performed by people who spent the last decade treating orthodox Christianity with open disdain, only to remember the Cross exists the moment it becomes electorally useful.

The sheer shamelessness is almost impressive.

Almost.

Disgusting doesn’t quite cover it. Hypocrisy this refined deserves a better word — preferably one in Latin, so they can pretend they don’t understand it while still feeling vaguely judged.

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i had to suffer through guitar masses in the 70's never again.

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