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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:11 PM Oct 14

Spirituality New Pope Leo XIV is providing the progressive moral leadership that current U.S. officials won't

Cerebral he may be, but Pope Leo XIV is showing no signs of caution in the first months of his papacy. He has taught compassion for refugees and taken to task the cruelty of Trump regime’s beyond-the-pale immigration enforcement.

The Pope appears aligned with such prelates as Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and at odds with the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which can be characterized as the MAGA movement at prayer.

It is significant in that Leo is the first American born leader of the world’s Catholics. He is a Chicago native and a White Sox fan who has voted in American elections.

Leo has also taken up themes, like a criticism of excesses of the rich in a new Gilded Age, preached by his predecessor Pope Francis.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/10/new-pope-leo-xiv-is-providing-the-progressive-moral-leadership-that-current-u-s-officials-wont.html

You don't expect Krasnov to provide moral leadership, do you? And Mike Johnson is too busy trying to claim Krasnov is a man of God while checking out his Grindr feed and taking money from the poor.

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Spirituality New Pope Leo XIV is providing the progressive moral leadership that current U.S. officials won't (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 14 OP
Maga bishops. Tetrachloride Oct 14 #1
Like Pope Francis, Pope Leo is a humanist using Catholic rhetoric. no_hypocrisy Oct 15 #2
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