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Pablo Manríquez's avatar

I apologize if you received the draft version of this post to your email around 2am ET. That was a rare misfire for Migrant insider. I'll be more careful in the future. My bad.

elenamoran100's avatar

Love Pope Leo.

Melanie's avatar

This is what I often post:

Just remember, they go by many names: MAGA, fundamentalist/evangelical, Dominionist, ‘Christian’/religious Nationalists, an alternative Catholic, which Pope Leo has rebuked Vance on, etc. As my caveat, only Jesus knows our hearts. I follow the teachings of Jesus and beg forgiveness when I fall short. Matthew 22:37–40 (NKJV) "Jesus said to him,'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love yourneighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." Unlike, the organizations above, Jesus was not an elite white supremicist. He was a brown man. We are simply Christians.

I need to modify this and separate MAGA INTO MAGA - Protestant, MAGA - Catholic as well as other changes. This is a very informative interview! Thank you!

Susan Dooha's avatar

Wonderful conversation. Love Leo! Is that a portrait of Frederick Douglass on your left?

L.'s avatar

beautiful story about the rosaries

Kris Brent's avatar

If it was a ‘joke’,which I don't believe it was, it was a joke in ver poor taste. Basically the joke was threatening the life of the Pope and the independence of the Papacy!

Penny A Hachey's avatar

That was 100% a threat. Take my word for it.

Brother Sun's avatar

Perhaps, having a Christian as Pope ( not unlike Francis), they can easily connect the dots to what happened in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany. Not only to Jews, but to Catholics as well. Take Edith Stein or Maximilian Kolbe. (Who was sent to Auschwitz in May 1941 for his active resistance against the Nazi occupation, specifically for hiding and providing aid to Jewish refugees and Polish underground members at his monastery in Niepokalanów. He was arrested by the Gestapo, having been a target for his outspoken, anti-Nazi publications.) Sound familiar? Pope Leo is not waiting to become a footnote. St. Francis began a new view of the Church and worship. The IMITATION OF CHRIST , like Mother Teresa was so found of saying. It's not just talking ( Bible study) or sitting in a pew. Jesus was not old Testament.