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> the White House is threatening the Vatican with causing a schism over the Pope not supporting their war in the Middle East

I can’t keep doing this dawg.

April 08, 2026 - 17:54 UTC

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where are the excommunications, Leo?
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/pushing Vance to the front of the line
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At last we have created the Antipope from classic medieval polemic "Don't create the Antipope!"
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I saw someone suggest Pope Peter Thiel and almost broke my phone.
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We all knew it was coming but I'll wait for more reporting on this before I get all hot and bothered
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Sky this is like the least surprising thing of the last at least week
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We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion
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Per Wikipedia, there are already at least half a dozen antipopes around the world. Most are from groups splintered from the Vatican for various reasons. Two are from the same splinter group, but disagree which one of them gets to be pope. Another believes he’ll become pope before the apocalypse.
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We long for an American anti-pope though
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The Avignon papacy was corrupt, so I can see the association with Trump.
Further, any schism requires the church to enact it. American Catholics love Pope Leo, and they would never tolerate Trump's interference. There will be no American Pope splitting with Rome to please the fat, orange apostate.
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I hope Paolo Sorrentino gives us a third season of The Young / New Pope out of this.
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When was the last politically motivated schism anyways? Henry VIII?
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it's basically the entire 16th c. history of the Holy Roman Empire
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maybe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Independent_Church?
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pick a year and a Ukrainian church
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China has established official “patriotic” Catholic and Protestant churches that have a complicated relationship with less patriotic Christians elsewhere.
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In Catholicism or major main line
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Technically all Schisms have been atleast partially if not majority politically motivated (You can't tell me what to do, you're in Rome and I'm in Istanbul/Russia/Britain)

But this would be the first Schism where it's 100% politically motivated
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I mean I guess you can make an argument for Sedevacantism. Plenty of other princes split for political reasons, although they mainly jumped to existing churches. Last semi-serious attempt to raise an antipope was what, Felix V of Savoy?
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Vigano, only a few years ago
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The Old Catholic schism after 1870 was mostly about disagreements with Vatican I, but the Old Catholics in Germany got significant backing from Bismarck during the Kulturkampf. Not sure if that counts.
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oops, article link www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house
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Northern v Southern Baptists over slavery in 1845? Certainly theological concerns, but very driven by politics of the age.

Maybe the 90s split of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship from the SBC? Again, theological concerns, this time over women, but also driven by politics.
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Has there ever been a not politically motivated schism?
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church a couple years ago.
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I would argue that all the falling out with regard to the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church would count, in spirit at least.
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Mushroom-sized Trump can only fantasize about himself being like Henry VIII
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I suppose it depends where you draw the line between politics and theology? There’s been a minor schism in Mainline American Protestant denominations in the past decade or two over women bishops. That’s quasi-political.
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I mean the global Orthodox community has essentially *just* had a political split because the Moscow Church is openly and firmly Putinist.
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A fat narcissistic idiot, who goes about the place sexually assaulting 13 year olds has a problem with the pope? Yup history is repeating itself..
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You could argue the Reformation at-large was as politically motivated as it was religiously, in fairness.

(Also counting all the post-Vatican II schisms would be cheating I guess.)
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But but, they called it a crusade! Of course they’re confused that the Pope doesn’t want to play with them
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Trump to send a couple of burly Corinthians to Rome on fake passports.
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we're not gonna make it :( lol, lmao even
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imagine thinking you could hang in there in a beef with the Portillo’s Pope
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We assume Trump would name Vance Pope, right?
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And if the dalai lama dies, Trump will assume he can pick the new one, yeah?
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Where does this trend of American TradCaths trying to lecture the Pope come from? Did Biden summon Vatican diplomats to yell at them about gays or condoms?
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I think it would be good if all the far right trad-cath psychos split off and just became yet another protestant denomination...
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Anglicism 2!!!!!!
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The Archbishop of Palm Beach!
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Oh sure threaten his holiness with an Avignon. This will only result in another great American victory (eye roll).
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No no, this is great
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Called it, though it's taking longer than I (jokingly) expected.
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Strategy Cheese is a trad cath...
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The Mar-a-Lago Papacy is nothing more than a bunch of Trump-branded Bibles boxed up in a gaudy bathroom.
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