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Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture.
America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.
As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.
That scene, broken this week by Mattia Ferraresi in an extraordinary piece of journalism for The Free Press, may be the most remarkable moment in the long and knotted history of the American republic’s relationship with the Catholic Church.
In the speech that enraged Pete Hegseth and top Pentagon officials, Pope Leo XIV said: “A diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force.”
“War is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.
“The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.”
Pete Hegseth’s pastor and mentor says the United States should ban public Masses, Marian processions, and Corpus Christi devotions.
Hegseth invited the anti-Catholic preacher to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon on February 14.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pete-hegseths-pastor-wants-to-ban
For the first time in modern history, the Pentagon offered no Good Friday services for Catholics this year.
While Catholics don’t celebrate Mass on Good Friday, they do venerate the cross of Jesus Christ and receive the Eucharist.
Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth invited his pastor to speak at the Pentagon. That pastor has called for banning public expressions of Catholicism in the United States.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trump-vance-white-house-escalates
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I really wonder how all my devoutly Catholic, Republican former coworkers are reacting to this.
Ah fascist infighting warms my heart lmao 🤣
The Nazi pedophile cabals are fighting
The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined
The principle established after the Second World War, which established the power of the United States to violate the borders of other nations, has been completely undermined.
Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth invited his pastor to speak at the Pentagon. That pastor has called for banning public expressions of Catholicism in the United States.
I actually can’t believe they’re putting Catholics on the same level as gay people
Real dying empire hours
Be pretty funny if there’s a legal challenge that goes to the SCOTUS. Last time I looked, 7 of the 9 justices were Catholic. It may be down to 6 now but it’s still a lot.
Threatening the head of the most powerful religious organisation in the world seems like a very bad plan for maintaining global influence.
I hope they do it
Invade the Vatican? Yeah me too it would be devastating for the US internationally. Quite possibly the worst thing for the american image I can think of. The USian state would be a pariah to 1.4 billion catholics for the next 70 years at least while they die off. More if you count sympathetic christians from other branches. And even more when you count agnostic people who like listening to the pope a couple times a year.
if you’re the pope, imagine letting yourself get threatened like that. excommunications should genuinely make a comeback. but it’s like, are you God’s emissary on earth or not man? because if so, this can only be understood as catholics attempting to threaten God with the u.s. military. what else would the pope have to fear from a man?
Technically I don’t think Trump can get excommunicated because he’s not Catholic.
They could put the entire Burger Reich under interdict.
no, but jd can be
jd vance should absolutely be excommunicated though
I would love there to be a Washington Anti-Pope to counter the Bishop of Rome who was born in Chicago.
Deep Dish Pope vs NYC Style AntiPope
Is dish deep good? Never had it but have heard all about it
Mid
Only in Chicago in my experience.
If you’re a toppings person vs. a crust person, deep dish is great
Personally, I prefer Detroit style or bar pie style
Do you like the sauce and cheese part of the pizza the most? Deep dish is basically an Italian seasoning tomato & cheese pie.
It is a good dinner, but it is not pizza.
This is The Only Pizza we recognize in this site.
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Cm’on, schism already
Congratulations J.D. Vance, you are now Pope Sofa, First of his Name.
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don’t make the Pope get his army to break out the idiosyncratic firepower. only military unit on earth that could be used as an effective time traveling army
HALBErD stands for High Altitude Laser Beam for Erasing Dicks
we’re going to find out those things are great for slapping suicide drones out of the sky
Haeresim Auxilio Lucis Beatae Everrit Radiis Divinatis
UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
you’re in 1309 motherfucker
This seems so idiotic? Why the hell would you make an enemy of the Pope? Isn’t the Catholic church a major pillar of Western soft power?
Not when they criticize you.
I mean, the pope lives in an entirely different country, is the fucking pope and yet…he hasn’t called this out a single time?
Why should Trump be scared of anyone?
“The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.”
The genre of statement where you act oblivious to the last 80 years of world history sucks so much.
I just watched Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat last night and there were many instances of people describing being blackmailed, threatened (“arm-twisted”), and bribed by the US, or US officials themselves describing it using euphemisms.
And we see this kind of rhetoric about things being at a “new low” or whatever even in left-wing spaces where people really should know better.
😠
Trump nuke the pope :timmy-pray:
He is just going to give him more aura
Atom-bombed Mary (Japanese: 被爆のマリア, Hepburn: Hibaku no Maria), also known as Our Lady of Nagasaki or the Virgin of Nagasaki, is the head from a wooden statue of Mary, mother of Jesus from a cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan. The statue survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945, but was severely damaged as a result of the explosion
Great drag name potential
Untapped emoji potential for the Catholic Posadist demographic
severely damaged
I’ll take what I can get :shrug-outta-hecks:
I can fix her 😤