Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.
Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.
“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
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KnitWit@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 162d
What, they gonna say the Vatican was hiding hamas and drop bombs?
Vieric@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 162d
No, that's too subtle for the current administration. Probably something much, much dumber.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 162d
Like bringing how the Catholic Church knew about pedophilia running rampant but covered it up--oh...
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 162d
They're going to say that the Pope is actually the Supreme Leader of Antifaz.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 162d
Saint Peter Hegseth, US/ GOP Secretary of War, Death & Blasphemy would dearly love to direct the very expensive US Air Force to carpet bomb those uppity Catholics in Vatican City
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 162d
"You saw what we did to the last guy."
mech@feddit.org · 6 pts · 161d
Except for controlling a narrow strait in the Middle East, or protecting their own military bases in the region, of course.
gndagreborn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
My mom has always been a die hard Catholic. Yesterday she made a comment that really worried me. I've been trying to de-MAGA her since 2016 to no avail. She finally said "you know, this new pope leo is kind of a dumbass. I don't think I like him so much". No further elaboration. No further conversation between us. I just didn't have anything else to say, add, or rebutt.
I really don't know what else to do. That's my mom man, and even the Catholic dogma is not enough to convince her to dump trump.