The Coloring Book Catholics who criticized Traditiones Custodes won’t like what a practicing Catholic wrote about the coordinated hit job on President Trump orchestrated by the Vatican in collusion with Dem operatives. Keeping in mind the Vatican has a strict immigration policy with fines up to 25,000 Euros and jail sentences of 1-4 years! So here goes:
You’ e made it clear that you no longer practice the Catholic Faith and have joined the Trumpian Church. God bless you and may He have mercy on your soul.
Oh for heaven's sake! Father, you and TJM are both being ridiculous! I don't know what's worse, his all-or-nothing Trumpism or your all-or-nothing papal obsession. Come on--this isn't a war unless you choose to make it one.
David Axelrod says the meeting was scheduled months ago. Pope Leo must have known how it would look and how it would be portrayed in the current circumstances, but he went ahead with the scheduled meeting anyway. More power to him! As he said, he is not afraid of the Trump Administration nor, by extension, of scurrilous innuendoes such as the one in the article you link.
The Church had become aware increasingly that the time had arrived to move beyond the death penalty.
Pope Francis (requiescat in pace), guided by the Holy Ghost, had acted upon developments in Church teaching that several of his predecessors had rendered in regard to the death penalty.
In turn, Pope Francis had declared that the death penalty had become "inadmissible":
Akin to the above, there has developed within the Church an increasing awareness that the time has arrived to move beyond war.
Holy Mother Church, via Guadium et Spes, has declared that it "is our clear duty, therefore, to strain every muscle in working for the time when all war can be completely outlawed by international consent."
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-- Pope Saint Paul VI: "No more war, war never again.”
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-- Pope Saint John Paul II: "Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare — whether nuclear or not — makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations.
"War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future."
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-- Pope Benedict XVI urges an end to all wars, calling them “useless”
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for an end to all wars, describing them as “useless slaughters” that bring hell to Earth.
“From this place of peace, where one still senses how unacceptable the horrors of ‘useless slaughters’ are, I renew the appeal to pursue the path of rights, to strongly refuse the recourse to weapons and refuse to confront new situations with old systems.”
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Pope Francis: "In other words, today war is in itself a crime against humanity. Let us not forget this: war is in itself a crime against humanity."
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Will Pope Leo XIV, having built upon his predecessors' denunciations of war, convince the world to outlaw war?
Perhaps President Trump's vile verbal assault against the Holy Father will morph into something more than a political blunder.
Perhaps President Trump's verbal assault in question...his pro-Culture of Death support of war...will inspire waves of folks everywhere to turn against war...to realize that Pope Leo XIV's powerful, unrelenting rejection of war is the rational path upon which to travel.
Excerpts from the article that, via his Cut 'n Paste post, TJM has promoted:
"So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. Obama’s campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
"And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
"All organically, I’m sure.
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"I’m a practicing Catholic. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him."
"I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne."
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"Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse.
"Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
"The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
"OF COURSE he won’t even name who’s doing the killing.
"But he’ll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president."
I wholeheartedly support Father McDondald’s defense of the Holy Father. The Pope may speak, even if, as the old joke goes in reverse, “it hairlips the Trump.”
It’s just too bad a bully can’t stand even indirect criticism from The Vicar of Christ. Almighty God cannot be bullied and everything Pope Leo is doing is doing the bidding of…. THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
The choice could not be clearer. Where you disagree with the Pope on a matter of faith and morals, even when not pronounced “ex cathedra,” it’s more than likely that he who disagrees is wrong and the Pope is right.
If that’s not your bias at least, then clearly you’re a Protestant or heretic or Mason Trump cultist. You’re not Catholic.
In the article you linked the writer claims that: “The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue. OF COURSE he won’t even name who’s doing the killing.”
I guess he must have missed Pope Leo’s wide-ranging address to the ambassadors to the Holy See in January (as well as other specific pronouncements in less wide-ranging addresses):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjL0F4GGb2k [full address] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMZh7wLxKo [portion of address discussing the persecution of Christians in various countries]
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The Coloring Book Catholics who criticized Traditiones Custodes won’t like what a practicing Catholic wrote about the coordinated hit job on President Trump orchestrated by the Vatican in collusion with Dem operatives. Keeping in mind the Vatican has a strict immigration policy with fines up to 25,000 Euros and jail sentences of 1-4 years! So here goes:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/the-church-versus-trump.php
You’ e made it clear that you no longer practice the Catholic Faith and have joined the Trumpian Church. God bless you and may He have mercy on your soul.
Oh for heaven's sake! Father, you and TJM are both being ridiculous! I don't know what's worse, his all-or-nothing Trumpism or your all-or-nothing papal obsession. Come on--this isn't a war unless you choose to make it one.
TJM:
David Axelrod says the meeting was scheduled months ago. Pope Leo must have known how it would look and how it would be portrayed in the current circumstances, but he went ahead with the scheduled meeting anyway. More power to him! As he said, he is not afraid of the Trump Administration nor, by extension, of scurrilous innuendoes such as the one in the article you link.
Mark J.
The Church had become aware increasingly that the time had arrived to move beyond the death penalty.
Pope Francis (requiescat in pace), guided by the Holy Ghost, had acted upon developments in Church teaching that several of his predecessors had rendered in regard to the death penalty.
In turn, Pope Francis had declared that the death penalty had become "inadmissible":
Akin to the above, there has developed within the Church an increasing awareness that the time has arrived to move beyond war.
Holy Mother Church, via Guadium et Spes, has declared that it "is our clear duty, therefore, to strain every muscle in working for the time when all war can be completely outlawed by international consent."
=======
-- Pope Saint Paul VI: "No more war, war never again.”
=======
-- Pope Saint John Paul II: "Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare — whether nuclear or not — makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations.
"War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future."
=======
-- Pope Benedict XVI urges an end to all wars, calling them “useless”
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for an end to all wars, describing them as “useless slaughters” that bring hell to Earth.
“From this place of peace, where one still senses how unacceptable the horrors of ‘useless slaughters’ are, I renew the appeal to pursue the path of rights, to strongly refuse the recourse to weapons and refuse to confront new situations with old systems.”
=======
Pope Francis: "In other words, today war is in itself a crime against humanity. Let us not forget this: war is in itself a crime against humanity."
=======
Will Pope Leo XIV, having built upon his predecessors' denunciations of war, convince the world to outlaw war?
Perhaps President Trump's vile verbal assault against the Holy Father will morph into something more than a political blunder.
Perhaps President Trump's verbal assault in question...his pro-Culture of Death support of war...will inspire waves of folks everywhere to turn against war...to realize that Pope Leo XIV's powerful, unrelenting rejection of war is the rational path upon which to travel.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Excerpts from the article that, via his Cut 'n Paste post, TJM has promoted:
"So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. Obama’s campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
"And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
"All organically, I’m sure.
=======
"I’m a practicing Catholic. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him."
"I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne."
=======
"Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse.
"Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
"The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
"OF COURSE he won’t even name who’s doing the killing.
"But he’ll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
I wholeheartedly support Father McDondald’s defense of the Holy Father. The Pope may speak, even if, as the old joke goes in reverse, “it hairlips the Trump.”
It’s just too bad a bully can’t stand even indirect criticism from The Vicar of Christ. Almighty God cannot be bullied and everything Pope Leo is doing is doing the bidding of…. THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
The choice could not be clearer. Where you disagree with the Pope on a matter of faith and morals, even when not pronounced “ex cathedra,” it’s more than likely that he who disagrees is wrong and the Pope is right.
If that’s not your bias at least, then clearly you’re a Protestant or heretic or Mason Trump cultist. You’re not Catholic.
TJM:
In the article you linked the writer claims that: “The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue. OF COURSE he won’t even name who’s doing the killing.”
I guess he must have missed Pope Leo’s wide-ranging address to the ambassadors to the Holy See in January (as well as other specific pronouncements in less wide-ranging addresses):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjL0F4GGb2k [full address]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMZh7wLxKo [portion of address discussing the persecution of Christians in various countries]
Mark J.
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