It's already the case that Catholic activism to support migrants has made them cool, but this will turn them into rock stars.

April 08, 2026 - 18:22 UTC

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Is "Obliterate" no longer fashionable in DC?
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meaning... anti-popes!! and schisms!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism
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The most evil and anti-American terrorist regime in our history. Shameful and reprehensible, they threaten religious leaders with violence, and its further proof that our government and every agency have been decapitated by hostile powers that are pure evil.
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I'm curious what sort of Trad-Catholicism includes military threats against the Church.
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Whoever made that threat should be removed and prosecuted.
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Elbridge Colby made the threat
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Bet the Vatican is thrilled to now have the dishonorable and execrable JD Vance as a member of the congregation.
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JD the Pope Killer.
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"Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do."

There is certainly some animus and dismay, but they pray for him to redeem his actions, and to take positive action to fix the harm he's done like they do for everyone else.

They even pray for this outcome for Trump and Hegseth.
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Religion is a tool of the patriarchy. PR will never rescue the paedo-church
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There are plenty of rightwing Catholics who might support a new Avignon pope. dolan is their rockstar.
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This administration is insufferable.
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If only there wasn't that centuries of protecting pedophiles thing...
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That's where the rock stars analogy really hits a little too close
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You know you're winning when you have to invoke medieval history to threaten a 21stC Pope.
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🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️💯💯
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Shades of Stalin's "how many divisions does the Pope have?", haha.
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Elbridge Colby was that U.S. official btw.
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LMAO
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Like the annihilation threat yesterday morning, just another example of mobsterism at the highest levels of our government.
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Oh good grief.
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Oooh. They some erudite scholar at the Pentagon read some history on the Avignon Papacy.
Are we supposed to be impressed?
Threaten him at your own risk.
Millions of us, including non Catholics, already love him.
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Citing the Avignon Papacy? How to say you're a Protestant convert to Catholicism without saying you're a Protestant convert to Catholicism.
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Or just a total cynic who only cares about power.
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Dang, am I gonna have to go back to church?! They've almost got me.
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Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Trump doesn't go all Henry the 8th, split from the Roman Catholic Church, and declare himself leader of a new Church of America. I'm sure there are conservative priests who would go along with it.
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But he’s a Protestant.
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This is both a revolting thought and entirely possible.
We’re living through utter madness.
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Putin put his guy in charge of the Russian Orthodox Church (Kirill), and Hitler put his guy in charge of the German Evangelical Church (the German Christians),--Archbishop Muller - driving those who would not accept underground. Its in the autocrats' playbook.
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Easy to come back from the mass coverup of child sex abuse huh. Just ask Donald.
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"There is no public record of any Vatican official ever taking a meeting at the Pentagon, and certainly none of a senior U.S. official threatening the Vicar of Christ on Earth with the prospect of an American Babylonian Captivity"

The Trump administration setting all kinds of precedents
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