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Pope Leo calls Trump's threat against Iran 'truly unacceptable'

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LeaderSevere5647 Apr 7, 2026 +2616
My supposedly catholic MAGA family respects Trump much more than they respect the pope. It’s f****** nuts.
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marshsmellow Apr 7, 2026 +1134
Tell them they are worshipping false idols etc...
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Just4TehLulz Apr 7, 2026 +881
You think American Catholics know literally f****** anything about their own faith? I was raised Catholic btw
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[deleted] Apr 7, 2026 +320
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FakeTherapist Apr 8, 2026 +11
yes more ammo
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CookieMonsterFL Apr 7, 2026 +73
brace yourself for the coastal Catholics to come out and say how weird it is that fellow American Catholics act like this.... The vast majority of Catholics I know are huge conservatives, and varies on the level of personal issue they take with Trump. American Catholics anywhere not located 60mi from the sea is about as conservative Christian as Baptists. I went to a Catholic school that cut up Harry Potter's face on a cake to celebrate my home room teacher's birthday during the Harry Potter crazy because he was a warlock/witch. I remember when the diocese tried to implement updates to the mass that included singing and changing words - a huge sect of the church simply refused to cooperate. A few Catholics I know still recognize Benedict the XVI as he wasn't liberal. It's madness in the flyover country for American Catholics. Best way to not be Catholic in the US is to be raised as one.
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EhDinnaeEvenKen Apr 7, 2026 +25
If they don't agree with the teachings espoused by the person that their church claims is **literally the divinely selected representative of god himself on earth**, surely they should just stop pretending to be catholic?
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Kijafa Apr 7, 2026 +55
The most zealous Catholics hardliners I know are all converts. I grew up Catholic, and went to Catholic school for nine years, so now I'm an atheist.
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tt12345x Apr 7, 2026 +41
>Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses." ^^@agraybee ^^on ^^Twitter
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PyroIsSpai Apr 8, 2026 +6
I grew up the sorta Catholic where if they adopt an alien baby you’re likely getting a helpful kind dork like Clark Kent. Jesus was literally a f****** benevolent kindly cosmic space nerd. Catholics who don’t come off like earnest Boy Scouts are doing it wrong.
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Anticode Apr 7, 2026 +36
"Were you raised religious?" "Eh, I was raised catholic, yeah." "Oh, so you're athiest." "...Yeah, how'd you know?" "..." "Oh." __ I've had this exact conversation dozens of times. Only once was it somebody who remained religious despite their catholic roots, and they were now *buddhist*.
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aesopmurray Apr 7, 2026 +21
I'm Irish, from Ireland. The idea of somebody converting to catholicism is absurd. Either you are indoctrinated as a child and you stop after your confirmation payday at 11 years of age, or you grow out of it at the same time as Santa.
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TheRC135 Apr 8, 2026 +8
I think that was an old George Carlin bit. Something like "I used to be a Catholic... then I reached the age of reason."
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janosslyntsjowls Apr 8, 2026 +3
In some places in the US we had to wait till we were *seventeen* for confirmation. Very few true believers in my class.
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Reof Apr 7, 2026 +9
I mean, American catholics are still weird as f with their current level of anti-papism, which does not make them any different from glorified protestants. Catholics elsewhere that I know of are deeply conservative to all the meaning of this, with a high level of ultramontanism still in effect, too, aka total submission to the pope and the church hierarchy.
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shitpostsuperpac Apr 7, 2026 +20
I’m happy to say that we New England Irish Catholics are still holding it down for the most part. You can still find some backward shit about birth control, abortion, and LGBTQ+. I can’t deny that. But the vibe compared to Protestants, Baptists, and other Catholics is night and day. That having been said… we’re mostly lapsed Papists at this point. Like you said, best way out of Catholicism is to best raised in it. So it’s mostly adopting secular what should be secular but keeping some positive teachings of Christ around.
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mizvixen Apr 7, 2026 +4
I agree that probably most Catholics are conservative, but I do find most if not all my Canadian Catholic family voted liberal here and are anti trump. Also Harry Potter was a big hit at my Catholic high school. Perhaps my experiences are an outlier.
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kamurochoprince Apr 7, 2026 +4
Same experience here, I think it’s a lot different down south.
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No_Atmosphere8146 Apr 7, 2026 +19
A literal golden idol. If only there was some book that warned something like this would come along. 
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_violet_skies_ Apr 7, 2026 +240
My cousin is a *catholic priest* and he respects Trump more than the pope. I’ll never understand.
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Intelligent_Sky_7081 Apr 7, 2026 +81
Its weird how anti-catholic the US is, so much so that even american catholic priests are somehow anti-catholic.
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Regniwekim2099 Apr 7, 2026 +39
I'd say schisms are just about the most Catholic thing you can do.
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Intelligent_Sky_7081 Apr 7, 2026 +5
Wouldnt the most catholic thing someone can do be, idk, venerate the pope? You know, the Vicar of Christ?
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Regniwekim2099 Apr 7, 2026 +6
I don't know, I'm not Catholic. Seems like a lot of them don't feel that way though, now and historically.
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aesopmurray Apr 7, 2026 +3
Are you American?
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mallcopbeater Apr 7, 2026 +51
Epstein island of course, there’s a common denominator
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captainbelvedere Apr 7, 2026 +25
It's YouTube mostly, imo. Before that it was conservative-washing magazines like First Things. The MAGAfied Catholics in my family all spend a lot of time watching 'Catholic' or Catholic-adjacent influencer-types spout off about how the Pope is wrong, possibly German or Gay (both equally bad in their eyes), that sort of thing. Before YouTube they were reading First Things and learning how to properly interpret the things JP2 or B16 said.
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BonerPorn Apr 7, 2026 +11
> possibly German Wait. What's wrong with the Pope being German? Wasn't there a German Pope not all that long ago?
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captainbelvedere Apr 7, 2026 +11
MAGAfied Catholics live in perpetual fear of German Catholics, because German Catholics tend to be softer and more pastoral on issues around sexual ethics.
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turquoise_amethyst Apr 7, 2026 +3
I believe you, but this is so sooo strange. 
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WilHunting2 Apr 7, 2026 +11
Might wanna check his laptop folders next time you get a chance.
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mcbeardsauce Apr 7, 2026 +33
This is cult behavior
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Filthiest_Vilein Apr 7, 2026 +20
My former best friend came to the U.S. as a refugee from Iraq. He voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary before going to medical school in the South, where he “rediscovered” his conservative Christian values.  This same guy, who doesn’t read the Bible and dodges questions about whether he actually believes in God, had the gall to tell me the bloody Pope isn’t a real Catholic because he’s too “woke.” The literal figurehead for his entire religion is the wrong kind of Christian because he’s isn’t a right-wing nutjob.  I’m a lifelong atheist but I love Medieval history, which means I know a lot more about the Church’s history than somebody like my friend. Dude literally believes that Christianity and the Catholic Church haven’t changed at all in hundreds of years and that any deviation from _evangelical_ American conservatism may as well be heresy, lol.  Bro also stopped being able to answer questions about whether dinosaurs were real, even though the Catholic position doesn’t explicitly condone strict creationism… 
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EnthusiasmUnusual Apr 7, 2026 +17
How is that possible?  I'm Irish, grew up Catholic etc etc and ....Trump is crass and greedy and cheats and steals etc.  Everything Jesus wasn't. I'm not religious now, but I went to mass until I was 18 and I remember Jesus wanting to feed the poor and heal the sick.. How does Trump match up to someone like that? I just don't get it...unless you're making a fortune or unless you're just a bigot.
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Naethor Apr 7, 2026 +31
Because MAGA´s a cult by now
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JyveAFK Apr 7, 2026 +3
Let them know they're not really catholics.
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undeadhulk007 Apr 7, 2026 +5184
pls, after 650 years we need the catholic church to put somebody into exile
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lunartree Apr 7, 2026 +1993
Republican Catholics should be excommunicated.
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Baked4skin Apr 7, 2026 +590
They would become even worse and go to the evangelical side lol. Speaking as a survivor of southern baptist style evangelicals lol.
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Nikla436 Apr 7, 2026 +230
I hate your profile image. It got me
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scorpyo72 Apr 7, 2026 +30
Even worse, I had a real live hair on my phone screen right underneath their profile picture. What an a****** (the hair, of course).
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Baked4skin Apr 8, 2026 +18
That is actually hilarious. Thank you for the laugh today. Needed it honestly lol <3
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VitaminDprived Apr 7, 2026 +16
But hopefully not an a****** hair?
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JulienBrightside Apr 8, 2026 +5
Not all paper is replaced by phones yet :p
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bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- Apr 7, 2026 +41
Is your profile pic supposed to make people try to blow the hair off their phone screen?
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Baked4skin Apr 7, 2026 +47
It is intended to provoke the constant rage I feel (:
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Masrim Apr 8, 2026 +7
I would have constant rage if my foreskin was baked too.
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Baked4skin Apr 8, 2026 +7
bugle chips were made from a part of me, cloned and replicated ... for your pleasure.
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MobiusF117 Apr 7, 2026 +18
They would probably get some guy to find some golden tablets somewhere (who then conveniently loses them) to worship and call it "Super Catholicism Powered By Mountain Dew" or some shit.
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Correct_Swimming_517 Apr 7, 2026 +6
Got some stories you wanna share?
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Baked4skin Apr 7, 2026 +51
I turned out gay so you can imagine how that went. Plenty of awful stories but I prefer to not be a downer but since you asked lol. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse you name it. I ran away at 16 after they had already sent me to Africa for 6 months (right near the Congo border) because I "needed to live out in the bush for an attitude adjustment" I was accused of being gay while there ( because of a misunderstanding but it is also fairly obvious to anyone not sheltered ) and the US embassy got involved and I was sent home early and called a sodomite in front of the entire church congregation. My family decided to send me to conversion therapy and my mothers own friends helped me run away... I never looked back and we have a very difficult relationship these days, if you can even call it that. I don't even pick up the phone for them. I don't think I would have survived some conversion therapy thing in the deep south honestly.
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Schmooto Apr 7, 2026 +28
Damn. They were hell bent on destroying you in the name of God. I’m sorry that you were subjected to all that abuse and so glad that you were able to escape.
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Baked4skin Apr 8, 2026 +23
I got lucky being somewhat attractive I was able to secure a modeling career and people were very sympathetic to me. I got very lucky, I almost feel a sense of survivors guilt because so few in similar situations get so lucky. I was basically taken in by a super wealthy family at 18 so... yeah the childhood trauma im still working through but I was absolutely determined to f****** live I knew there was a world outside of my bubble.
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Schmooto Apr 8, 2026 +11
You are courageous and resilient. Thanks for sharing your story.
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TheRC135 Apr 8, 2026 +8
Like Jesus always said, cast out anybody who is different and dump them in the jungle.
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schnurble Apr 8, 2026 +3
Internet stranger, I am glad you got out and survived. Maybe not unscarred, but survived.
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aoasd Apr 8, 2026 +4
Evangelicals hate Catholics. They ain’t gonna accept those people lol
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Baked4skin Apr 8, 2026 +9
They LOVE converting people more than they hate catholics lol.
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jrsinhbca Apr 7, 2026 +94
Most republican doctrines are the opposite of the Saviors message. Jesus never wanted people to be wealthy or well armed.
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AndrewCoja Apr 7, 2026 +27
No, they invented a gate that was narrow and was difficult for camels to walk through so that the story would mean it is possible for rich people to go to heaven.
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CalBearFan Apr 7, 2026 +12
It was Pope Francis who said a devout Catholic should not feel comfortable in either US political party. There's plenty not to like from a Catholic perspective in both party's policies.
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sigep0361 Apr 7, 2026 +28
Pls excommunicate JD Vance before he slays another pope.
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WeirdSysAdmin Apr 7, 2026 +86
Republican Catholics are why I grew up Catholic and unaligned myself with all religion controlled by men.
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Top_Seaweed7189 Apr 7, 2026 +24
Which ones are controlled by women?
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pbzeppelin1977 Apr 7, 2026 +11
Mother Goddess Thicc Chiccs Rise Up! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Wien_NHM_Venus_von_Willendorf.jpg
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AcknowledgeUs Apr 7, 2026 +7
The matriarchal society of elephants, love evolved- some humans question their sentience instead of bowing to their superiority.
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Genericide224 Apr 7, 2026 +13
The Anglican Communion is currently headed by a woman, though she doesn’t “control it” like the Pope does Catholicism
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Tasonir Apr 7, 2026 +19
You're halfway there!
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Sir-Nicholas Apr 7, 2026 +15
Whoa- oh, living on a prayer!
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ArchAngel621 Apr 7, 2026 +11
Do what they did in Trench Crusade and summarily banish them from Heaven.
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VanbyRiveronbucket Apr 7, 2026 +5
Just a simple postcard: “you have been Ex-Communicated”. - the Pope
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FatherOfLights88 Apr 7, 2026 +2
One of the greatest Christian misleadings of all time is allowing capitalists to believe that they're also Christian. It's a tremendous wrong.
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grtyvr1 Apr 7, 2026 +6
Are there any? I would have guessed they are all some Protestant denomination. 
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chasesan Apr 7, 2026 +75
You can't excommunicate somebody who isn't Catholic, at least I don't think so.
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dances_with_gnomes Apr 7, 2026 +94
They can excommunicate Vance
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Historical_Course587 Apr 8, 2026 +15
They can announce that they will excommunicate any Catholic who sides with Trump. Unfortunately, the last thing the Catholic church wants is a fued between dynastic child molestation rings.
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CalBearFan Apr 7, 2026 +9
Correct since excommunicating someone is removing them from the right to the sacraments of the Catholic church.
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captainbelvedere Apr 7, 2026 +4
Correct. They're already 'not in communion' with the RCC.
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takeda64 Apr 7, 2026 +81
trump isn't Catholic, actually to be frank, he isn't even a Christian, only acts as one. Vance claims to be Catholic, but he seems more like an [Antichrist](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1PR0Mz.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=1205&y=376&s=258&d=258). Can you believe he was the last person pope Francis saw before he died?
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meatybacon Apr 7, 2026 +32
Trump claims to be Christian. He's never acted like one. Big difference
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takeda64 Apr 7, 2026 +6
Yeah, that's what I said that he isn't. Few years ago he was interviewed by conservatives, claimed Bible is his favorite book and Art of the Deal is his 2nd favorite. Despite that he still was unable to recall a favorite passage, and was even afraid to say if he preferred old or new testament (he was afraid the followup questions that he wouldn't be able to answer.) Anyway my original point is that there are multiple sects of Christianity, and Catholic one is the biggest and oldest one, but he is not even claiming to be a Catholic so a Catholic pope excommunicating him wouldn't mean much. And that assuming he is Christian, which he isn't. His spiritual advisor is Paula White which created a Christian sect, that believes that the richer you are the better person you are (reasoning that if you're rich it is because Jesus loves you).
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SassyLass496 Apr 7, 2026 +4
Have you seen him hold a bible ?
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bwoah07_gp2 Apr 7, 2026 +12
For a photo op, during civil unrest in Washington. >*"Mr. President, is that your Bible?"* >*"It is a Bible."* Also, remember when he was asked to quote his favourite Bible verse, and he immediately bailed on that question and spun it into a vague "I like all of it" thing? And Pence is sitting there like usual 😐😐
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Iohet Apr 7, 2026 +52
At this point Vance has earned an excommunication
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fredflintstone7 Apr 7, 2026 +11
Napoleon Bonaparte; how quickly they forget
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Soberaddiction1 Apr 7, 2026 +49
The church couldn’t even denounce Hitler when he was doing all that genociding. You’d have thought they might have done something then.
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ankokudaishogun Apr 8, 2026 +7
You might want to remember the Vatican being a plaza inside the capital of Hitler's biggest ally who already didn't think much of the Pope...
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MR1120 Apr 7, 2026 +18
Shit, the first treaty Hitler signed was with the Vatican
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Madbrad200 Apr 7, 2026 +6
Most people weren't aware of the Holocaust as it was happening. As for the war.... well, religion is just as much shaped by politics as the rest of society. The Vatican was almost scrapped as a political entity not all that long ago prior.
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gosols Apr 7, 2026 +2726
* Mar 3: "We won the war." * Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." * Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." * Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." * Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.” * Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." * Mar 13: "We won the war." * Mar 14: "Please help us." * Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." * Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." * Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." * Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." * Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." * Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." * Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." * Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz." * Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." * Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it." * Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait" * Mar 22: "Iran is Dead" * Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran." * Mar 24: "We’re making progress." * Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” * Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away." * Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO." * Mar 28: No major quote * Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing * Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences." * Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing" * Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon." * Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not * Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen." * Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. "Tuesday 8 PM ET". * Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." * Apr 6: "We can bomb the hell out of them" * Apr 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight"
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pleasetrimyourpubes Apr 7, 2026 +557
Is this your pasta? Because we will be eating spaghetti 6 months from now. Nice post bro.
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Betty_Boss Apr 7, 2026 +189
good use of copypasta, updated daily or more.
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gosols Apr 7, 2026 +23
I hope this will be pasta’d with updates until the guy is off the throne!
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Obvious_Equivalent_1 Apr 7, 2026 +89
> Is this your pasta? It’s originated u/BaconManDan9’s 
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MarshyHope Apr 7, 2026 +42
It's a never ending pasta. Could feed all of Rome
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aykcak Apr 7, 2026 +44
> They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. Oh yeah I remember that vaguely. Really hard to recall specific instances of bullshit among the torrential sea of bullshit he is spewing but that one was so specific and so weird
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turquoise_amethyst Apr 7, 2026 +6
Agreed, and I want to know what it was
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friendofelephants Apr 8, 2026 +9
I don’t think there was any present.
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Thandalen Apr 7, 2026 +81
Thank you for highlighting the madness of the toilet-in-chief the US have elected as their leader. If each of those days represented a year, It would still not make sense to switch position that quickly. It really only does make sense of you try to manipulate the markets.
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Lfsnz67 Apr 7, 2026 +48
You left out June 22 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer: "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated"
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gosols Apr 7, 2026 +20
Feel free to update the pasta and keep it alive by posting elsewhere. (Not my pasta anyways)
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[deleted] Apr 7, 2026 +29
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IaMm1N3 Apr 7, 2026 +25
F*** that. Take him down
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thewanderingent Apr 7, 2026 +9
He needs to be removed from society in such a way that he cannot influence anything about the world any longer. A deep, dark and caged cell would be fine, but I suspect his dementia already has him in its grasp, which is all the more reason to stop him from making any more decisions that have worldwide implications.
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CavillOfRivia Apr 7, 2026 +9
Does your president can shut his hole for more than a week? holy shit what and exhausting pile of garbage that man.
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HardcoreKaraoke Apr 7, 2026 +160
I'm glad the Pope is coming out so directly against it. He isn't dancing around the topic. He's going right after Trump quotes instead of sanewashing what Trump is doing. Imagine if the leader of Russia, North Korea or China went on a meltdown declaring total annihilation on social media. How would the US respond? Probably pretty f****** harshly. I hate how easily he is getting away with this. His rhetoric is not normal for a leader.
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Gerrywalk Apr 7, 2026 +18
If the leader of Russia did it? Trump would drool over his shoes and ask him to throw a few missiles on America as well
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steve_ample Apr 7, 2026 +630
Call out Vance for not doing enough to stop it. Big bonus to remind the world he's in Hungary to push Putin's interests.
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LeatherFruitPF Apr 7, 2026 +191
Not doing anything to stop it is the reason Vance is VP.
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Initial-Return8802 Apr 7, 2026 +57
Honestly my respect for Pence has only gone up since Trump’s second term and the end of his first, Trump called him a traitor for not going along with his false election shit in 2020 and I wonder what else he held back now
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StrangeRelyk Apr 7, 2026 +27
The man gets zero respect of mine. He didn't do enough and out of billions of people on this earth, he helped him along at some point. There is no coming back from that
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felis_scipio Apr 7, 2026 +26
Jokes on the pope if he thinks if American Catholic converts actually give a shit about compassion and peace.
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camethroughthewall Apr 7, 2026 +13
Vance doesn’t even know what the outside of a Catholic Church looks like let alone the inside of one.
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Cloudhiddentao Apr 7, 2026 +12
No one has done enough to stop it. The world is treating this as if any of it is f****** sane - it isn’t. The American people watch and do nothing. Foreign governments watch and do nothing. People being bombed literally as I type this are watching, and doing nothing. It’s one f****** shit stain of a man. There is a very easy solution to this problem. It simply requires that people stop watching and start f****** **doing**. Because time is running out.
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HardSteelRain Apr 7, 2026 +50
So many so called Christians prefer trump to their own pope because trump practices and teaches racism and misogyny...the actual teachings of Christ are too 'woke' for them to follow
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Adventurous_Bag_4547 Apr 7, 2026 +9
This ☝️☝️☝️
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FeijoaMilkshake Apr 7, 2026 +250
Excommunication for every Trump cabinet member can be a good start, just saying, your holiness.
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TameTheAuroch Apr 7, 2026 +45
I’m 100% sure all republican catholics in the cabinet are sedevacantist nutjobs.
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Iohet Apr 7, 2026 +3
They think everything else was better in the 50s. Guess that means the pope too
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Suspicious-Coffee20 Apr 8, 2026 +3
It jsut going to start a Protestant wave or something. like this happened before.
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RichardEpsilonHughes Apr 7, 2026 +277
Look buddy, you have a big red button called 'excommunicate'. You can hit the catholics in that admin with it at any time
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caitnicrun Apr 7, 2026 +58
Just keep in mind there is a path back through atonement. But, yeah, doing it would send a message.
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exOldTrafford Apr 7, 2026 +51
Excommunication has always ultimately been about sending a message though. That's sort of the main point
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dandroid126 Apr 7, 2026 +16
Meanwhile my mom got excommunicated for the heinous crime of... Not refusing to sign divorce papers that her (now ex) husband forced upon her because he wanted absolutely nothing to do with his child (which he named after himself). But apparently back in those days, divorce for any reason meant excommunication. Even if you didn't want the divorce.
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barsoap Apr 7, 2026 +9
The general way out of that is [annulment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulment#Catholicism). As usual with Catholics you can do a lot of things but you might have to lie on the paperwork.
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dandroid126 Apr 7, 2026 +5
It's about 40 years too late for my mom, and I don't think she's all that interested in rejoining the Catholic church. But it is good to share this in case anyone else is going through something similar.
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69kKarmadownthedrain Apr 7, 2026 +46
You cannot excommunicate someone outside the Church in the first place
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LackingUtility Apr 7, 2026 +61
6 of the 9 current SCOTUS justices are Catholic: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Sotomayor.
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cantadmittoposting Apr 7, 2026 +52
Vance is a converted catholic.
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ChopSueyMusubi Apr 7, 2026 +21
MAGA will just excommunicate the Pope in response.
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BlobFishPillow Apr 7, 2026 +12
They'd literally call to revoke his citizenship.
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Hyperious3 Apr 7, 2026 +20
technically since he's now the head of government for the Vatican he doesn't need any other citizenships since he has diplomatic status anywhere he goes. I doubt he's paying US taxes any longer.
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PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS Apr 7, 2026 +6
He’s got a bigger button than that called a Papal Interdict, that effectively bans priests from celebrating Catholic Rites in a country until they rein in their leaders.
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HumanSnotMachine Apr 7, 2026 +13
So they can make up their own flavor of Protestant and become even more unhinged? Idk if you thought this through.
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Adventurous_Bag_4547 Apr 7, 2026 +6
Kinda been done already…many times. Look at the thousands of nominal Christian denominations.
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MR1120 Apr 7, 2026 +117
Excommunicate every Catholic in the Trump administration. Take a page out of Trump’s playbook and give them a deadline. Say, 7:55pm eastern. If they have not invoked the 25th amendment and removed him from office by then (I don’t give a damn if that’s realistic or not; Something has to be done), then as God’s representative on Earth, excommunicate them from the church and condemn them to Hell.
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loxagos_snake Apr 7, 2026 +20
Absolute cinema. That's not how many of this works. Also, a priest of any level condemning someone to hell is a curse, which is, like, one of the worst sins they could commit.
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P4azz Apr 7, 2026 +9
The condeming wouldn't be "said" it'd be implicit in exiling them from the Church. It wouldn't be "I condemn you to hell" it'd be "you are no longer allowed to be part of the church that saves you from hell for being in it".
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Mordiken Apr 8, 2026 +3
Excommunication does not "condemn people to hell", nor has the Catholic Church *ever* taught such a thing, because Catholics believe that God is the ultimate arbiter of Salvation. What excommunication actually is, is a declaration from the Catholic Church stating that as a consequence of someone's grave transgressions against the Rules of God, Man, or the Church itself, it can no longer recognize them as being in communion with the Body of the Church (hence the name), The most immediate consequence of this is that Catholic priests will no longer be able perform any of the sacraments Church Doctrine prescribes as being an integral part of a Catholic's spiritual path towards salvation, because they believe what empowers the sacraments is the Holy Spirit working through the Body of the Church, not the individual priest. However, being excommunicated doesn't mean that the Church deems a person to be "beyond redemption", but it *does* mean that the Catholic Church expects the person to recognize the error of their ways, to show genuine repentance for their transgression, to make amends and undo all of the damage they've caused, and do back all of these things not just with pretty words but also with actions. So no: Being excommunicated is not even "a curse"... Quite the contrary, in fact.
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sbrnst Apr 7, 2026 +40
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!” • Pedophile Donald Trump threatening to commit more WAR CRIMES against Iran, in a TruthSocial post, April 7th 2026
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Lepidopterex Apr 8, 2026 +7
His capitalization always makes me feel like he is pitching a new product or getting ready to trademark a phrase. 
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Spelunkie Apr 7, 2026 +16
Bring back excommunicating entire countries for their leadership's stupidity!
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McortezLSU Apr 7, 2026 +39
Excommunicate Vance. DO IT!
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SavageCucmber Apr 7, 2026 +8
Trump is a follower of Islam now, dint ya hear?
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happymisery Apr 7, 2026 +60
Literally the word of “gods messenger on earth” still won’t be “Christian” enough for MAGA to listen .
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poonslyr69 Apr 7, 2026 +40
Well most of them are evangelicals, Protestants who don't care about the pope. 
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RoddyViper Apr 7, 2026 +22
And a lot of the Catholics are weirdo "tradcath"-type converts like Vance LARPs as
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Dt2_0 Apr 7, 2026 +6
F*** those tradcaths convert idiots. I left the church because of them (among other things). They turned every goddamned thing into a moral contest, and made what used to be a great community of people some poisoned pit of bullshit. I have no problem with people converting religions, but STOP trying to make your new faith some evangelical wet dream.
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sundogmooinpuppy Apr 7, 2026 +7
Americans who vote republican are 1000% responsible for all these vile things.
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resjudicata2 Apr 7, 2026 +27
We should ask the Pope if Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Robthebold Apr 7, 2026 +13
Careful Leo, they may send Vance to visit you…
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Explorer_1990_ Apr 7, 2026 +5
The time for use of 25th amendment has come. I dont want that the scenes in the movie *The Day After* from 1983 would become true.
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Goat_inna_Tree Apr 8, 2026 +5
Pope needs to excommunicate Vance.
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buttchugreferee Apr 7, 2026 +86
so what's the pope going to do about it?
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witchofpain Apr 7, 2026 +176
I’m not sure what he *can* do. Trump doesn’t care about the pope. He could excommunicate Vance for supporting him. Then we will see how devout a Catholic Vance actually is.
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Crimkam Apr 7, 2026 +108
This would be an absolutely baller move by the pope
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GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Apr 7, 2026 +25
he has papal infallibility, so he just has to declare that trump isn't the president, BOOM problem solved, god truly is great
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Adventurous_Bag_4547 Apr 7, 2026 +32
Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the pope when he speaks ‘ex cathedra’ is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine "initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition". It does NOT mean that the pope cannot sin or otherwise err. It designates the authority of the pope as the ruling agent as to what are accepted as formal beliefs in the Catholic Church. It’s not a license to wield wholesale power.
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Fischerking92 Apr 7, 2026 +12
Holy Crusade X Civil War wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 though📝🧐
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Spare_Elderberry_418 Apr 7, 2026 +18
No, that would undo almost a century of progress of the Catholic Church in the US. It would all but confirm the old conspiracy theories that "The Pope politically controls all Catholics" that JFK worked so hard to dissipate when trying to become president. 
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witchofpain Apr 7, 2026 +24
And in reasonable times I would agree with you. We are not in reasonable times
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Redemolf Apr 7, 2026 +24
They're not conspiracy theories though, that's literally how the catholic church works. The pope is elected from the college of cardinals who work in influencial positions across each country with a catholic presence. If you have a country with a weaker separation of church and state, the catholic church will have stronger influence. I wouldn't say /all/ catholic, but within the church as an institution the pope has the final say on a lot of things, formally or informally.
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Notorious_Junk Apr 7, 2026 +11
Why hasn't the Pope excommunicated Vance? More of the same, everyone is all talk and no bite when it comes holding the US regime accountable.
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Kor_Phaeron_ Apr 7, 2026 +4
Because people don't understand what excommunication is. If Vance starts denying the holy trinity we can talk.
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banditta82 Apr 7, 2026 +10
The same reason Biden wasn't for his pro choice stance, despite calls to do so.
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AhimsaVitae Apr 7, 2026 +9
Because all the people suggesting it don’t understand cannon law, there isn’t valid grounds for excommunication. It needs to be things like heresy, apostasy, or schism.
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boeingman737 Apr 7, 2026 +24
Send the Swiss Guard to Hormuz
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mackyoh Apr 7, 2026 +13
Lmao ok that’s funny amid this total shit show
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tonysopranosalive Apr 7, 2026 +9
Swiss Guard showing up in their full dress uniforms hahaha
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MostJudgment3212 Apr 7, 2026 +9
What do you expect him to do?
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Soft_Author2593 Apr 7, 2026 +7
swiss guard is sharpening halberds as we speak
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PaidToBendOver Apr 7, 2026 +13
Step 1: Declare Mormonism a heresy Step 2: Call a Crusade against America Step 3: ???? Step 4: Prophet
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Timbershoe Apr 7, 2026 +28
Reasonably sure as the spiritual authority and voice of God on Earth, he’s the only person on earth who can damn trump to hell and it carry weight. At least in the Christian faith.
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77NorthCambridge Apr 7, 2026 +16
Trump has already stated publicly that he knows he's not going to Heaven.
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omfgeometry Apr 7, 2026 +11
He kissed that ticket goodbye when he started raping kids
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TheWhiteManticore Apr 7, 2026 +4
Well he is just going back to his natural habitat from whence he came
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AnAngeryGoose Apr 7, 2026 +8
Interestingly, the Catholic Church doesn’t actually give itself official damnation powers. Judas Iscariot has been implied to be damned sometimes but beyond that, Hell is a black box doctrinally.
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fury420 Apr 7, 2026 +7
He's only the spiritual authority and voice of God on Earth *for Catholics*, not for Christians generally. He's not even the only Christian pope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_of_the_Coptic_Orthodox_Church
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brehhs Apr 7, 2026 +7
And what more do you think he can do about it?
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buttchugreferee Apr 7, 2026 +3
so we're all screwed then 
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Cantore18 Apr 7, 2026 +5
Looking forward to the insane disrespectful tirade Trump will give in response and somehow not lose a single religious voter over.
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Unplayed_untamed Apr 7, 2026 +14
Excommunication would be honestly amazing
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Silicon_Knight Apr 7, 2026 +17
Looks like trumps odds of getting into heaven closed a bit more lol. (Not that the door exists, wasn’t already shut, etc…)
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FlipFlappattywhack Apr 7, 2026 +10
That's ok. The slip n slide towards hell is more than ready for him
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Front_Promise_5991 Apr 7, 2026 +14
Long live Pope Leo! He is fighting against heathens.
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Reddit_2_2024 Apr 7, 2026 +5
Thank you Pope Leo!
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Kevadu Apr 7, 2026 +25
Raping children should also be unacceptable yet here we are.
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mojambowhatisthescen Apr 7, 2026 +12
And has the Pope said it isn’t?
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candianchicksrule Apr 8, 2026 +6
JD Vance needs to be excommunicated. His book should be pulled from the shelves because they are a joke. His wife should be excommunicated.
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Terrible_Risk_6619 Apr 7, 2026 +3
New Crusade to free the US of the influence of an Antichrist.
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Retro1989 Apr 7, 2026 +3
Well that's the Pope and the Vatican next on the list.
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AlludedNuance Apr 7, 2026 +3
I know Trump isn't Catholic, but excommunicate him anyway.
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CHSummers Apr 8, 2026 +3
*Where is your God now?*
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grathontolarsdatarod Apr 7, 2026 +4
Thank God. Someone needed to say it. Good guy pope.
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HarlequinKOTF Apr 7, 2026 +4
Damn I never thought I'd say the same exact words as a pope
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DFu4ever Apr 7, 2026 +5
I’m sure the Catholic Trump supporters in my extended family will go full pretzel trying to explain this.
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SolizeMusic Apr 7, 2026 +5
Bro is avenging Francis after he saw the devil himself, JD Vance
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