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.”
That sounds like something that an envoy of Sauron would say. Does Colby really think he’s one of the good guys?
Maga Yanks are total nutters
Smells like weakness to me.
I’m kind of waiting for: God has decided to back Trump for now but patience wearing thin or some such similar ridiculousness in this reality.
Guys fucking delusional 🤣 we’ve seen how well that works over the last 50 years.
You mean the Pope? I’m yet to see any problems for the US over how they act.
No, Colby.
Six of our nine Supreme Court Justices are Catholics.
Yeah not the usual breed are they? I’m from a catholics family and the horrors they enable are absolutely alien to the principles I grew up with. They whole of them would be ripe for hell if that was a thing…
Yeah, but at least two are opus dei, which will gladly oppose the pope if they feel he’s in their way.
As catholic as 5 year old croissants left outside in the dirt are
Eh does that mean these been to the island?
this reminds me of that Bogdanoff twins meme
LOL
It’s fascinating that the Pope gets threatened for being critical of Donald, and not, you know, facilitating an international child trafficking ring.
I remember in the last book of the Bible it always talks about the very Christian one world government.
If a side-effect of Trump’s idiocy is having the Vatican bombed out of existence, as a Roman, I’ll take it.
Why do Romans wish for the Vatican to be bombed out of existence? Honest question, and I’m not religious or anything.
Because for true Romans the Vatican will always represent the last bit of the temporal power that Popes exercised on the population for centuries and that keeps being exercised de facto true the corruption and continuous ingerence of the Catholic Church in Italian political affairs, local and national.
Not that they are better or worse than all other priests of any confession or religion, but the Catholic Church is the one we have a quite fresh memory of.
