Timothy Birdnow

There was an absolutely dreadful article excusing Pope Leo and excoriating President Trump for getting into a tiff over Ian. This article claims the Pope "prayed for peace" and Trump jumped down his throat. Horsefeathers! This Pope has been making a concerted attack against Trump for weeks now.

Anyway I responded thusly:

Sadly no, this politicized Pontiff is not owed a single word of apology from Donald Trump nor J.D. Vance. Praying for peace is one thing but accusing the President (and thus impeaching his credibility with gullible Catholics) is quite another.

This Pope did not merely ask for peace but for America to just back down on this despite this meeting the criteria of a just war in almost every way. This Iranian regime has been at war with US since 1979 and has killed thousands of Americans, and Jews in Israel. It has promoted war throughout the Middle East, funding terrorist proxy armies like Hizbollah or Hamas or ISIS. It attempted at least twice to assassinate President Trump, an act of war. You apparently have forgotten the attack on the Marines in Lebanon, or the Kobar Towers, or the hostages taken in the U.S. embassy. And that is not even mentioning what the Iranians have done to Israel, and even their own neighbors.

Iran murdered 40,000 of their own citizens for protesting against the regime, guess you missed that.

Most of the countries in the region wanted our protection against Iran.

By any metric they posed a clear and present danger. And they themselves told us they had enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear weapons. Oh, and their use of ballistic missiles to attack Diego Garcia proved they lied about their missile range and meant they ha weapons capable of delivering nuclear warheads. Iran had been experimenting with implosion triggers to make their nukes smaller and lighter and thus they could deliver them on their weaponry. I would also add they seem to have an inexhaustible supply of missiles. They didn't build those to defend against Israel; those were and are offensive weapons.

All of this went over Pope Leo's pointy little noggin. Instead he said "god does not listen to the prayers of those fighting wars" which is sheer nonsense; He listened to King David, didn't He? He ordered Israel to implement the ban when fighting with the Canaanites, didn't He? In fact, God was angry with Saul for not obeying the ban (which was basically a genocide, the killing of all the people in Canaanite towns, including children and livestock) and drove him mad then had him fall on his own sword.

In fact God would probably be displeased with President Trump if he simply ignored the gathering crisis and left the Iranians and everyone else to their fate. We are supposed to help and protect our neighbors. That is why the state is "given the power of the sword" in the first place.

But Leo is just a mini-me of Francis and was chosen solely to act as a counterweight to Trump and hopefully peel off Catholics from MAGA. It was always said there would never be an American Pope as long as the U.S. was the world leader but that changed and they got someone from the Chicago Way specifically to go after Trump. And since Francis stacked the College of Cardinals he got his pick.

Francis was a Peronista Pope and Leo is an Alinsky Pope.

I would add Leo did this just when he was having a nice friendly visit with a Jewish Marxist atheist named David "deadfish" Axelrod, Obama's political hitman. Now, why do you suppose the Pope was meeting with Axelrod and he had not even met with Trump or anyone else in Trump's administration?

As a lifelong Catholic I was highly offended at the Pope's condemnation of the U.S. and Trump. If he wanted to pray for peace he should have prayed for peace, not pointed fingers. The Papacy is, by agreement with the Italian government going back to the foundation of Italy, supposed to stay out of politics.

If this Pope had a right to speak his mind (and I don't deny that, but he should have said it was his personal opinion) fine but so too does the President. BTW many Catholics misunderstand ex cathedra and think the Pope is ALWAYS infallible, which is exactly what Leo was counting on. No Pope has speaken ex cathedra since 1959.

The author here says the Pope is "trying to save souls" yet not one single thing he said has anything to do with saving souls. If this Poope wanted to save souls he would talk about transgenderism (a sin), homosexuality (a sin), promiscuity (a sin), crime (a sin), heavy taxation (the sin of theft), and a host of other such things. But he chooses to attack Trump over a just war. No, this Pope will have to be the one answering to God for not supporting the protection of the Iranian People, and the Israelis, and everyone else. It was his duty to call out the Iranian Mullahs but he's more worried about his precious New World Order.

Pope Leo is the one who owes an apology.

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