The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV spoke out against Russia’s continued war against Ukraine in an interview on May 9.
Speaking with Peruvian news outlet Semanario Expresión, Pope Leo condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, characterizing it as a "a true invasion, imperialist in nature, where Russia seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power.”
Pope Leo was appointed just earlier this week on May 8, following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at the age of 88. On May 7, cardinals officially opened the historic conclave in the Vatican to choose the next head of the Catholic Church.
By clearing naming Russia’s imperialist aspirations in Ukraine, the new pope’s comments come as a departure from his predecessor’s position on the war.
So far:
- ☑ Condemns Trump
- ☑ Condemns Putin
- ☐ Condemns Netanyahu (partial)
I guess it’s a start, though I hope he calls them out more directly. He was pretty close to Francis after all, and Francis even donated his popemobile to be turned into a mobile clinic for Gaza (no doubt to draw media attention to what Israel is doing).
I hope he stays away from stairs and 3rd+story windows
And Vances, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Lmao these fucking memes are never gonna get old
Good lord…
I want to hang it on my wall…
Is there an higher res?
Definitely. At some point ‘enhance’ kind of stopped being a joke
So AI?
Yeah
Legend.
.ml in disarray.
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
Am I wrong?
It’s cultural jamming, they just argue no matter the detail as their goal isn’t intellectual honesty or persuasion, it’s disruption of social fabric and generally drowning out any possible consensus.
In their defense, they learned it from watching corporate pr firms, but even those had resource constraints.
Hey @admiralpatrick, come say your catchphrase!
Anyway, the answer is: if they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
They just don’t like their cognitive dissonance challenged doesn’t matter who’s who. It hurts the peanut brain.
I tried to come up with an answer and I cant
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.
Ah yeah, the Cattocomunisti, as we call them in Italy. Too bad there is no such thing in the reality of the application of the Catholic doctrine.
Damn, right after Putin said that he hopes for a good relationship with the pope too!
All he has to do is to stop the war and fly to The Hague.
Religious MAGA nutts cry that their leader doesn’t believe Ukraine started the war.
Most maga nuts are protestant.
Most maga nuts are
protestant.*Anti-christ
They do wear the mark on their foreheads…
It seriously seems like they are trying to find the exact definition of a shitheel and act it out. It’s wild
Evangelical, even.
all the tankies gunna hate this guy now
Are the kids still saying based? Might I nominate His Holy Basedness?
He seems to be better than the last guy when it comes to Russia’s war. That guy really thought it was the fault of NATO/Ukraine/whoever…
Not really that they were at fault, per se, he just wrongly assumed a better outcome would come if Ukraine surrendered. Personally, I think that would just give Russia and China the greenlight to expand further and faster.
Pope Francis was a Jesuit. When in 1773 the church dissolve the Jesuit order, many of them fled to Russia, where Catherine the Second gave them hospitality. The order was restored in 1814. Since then, Jesuits have always had a soft spot for Russia.
That guy really thought it was the fault of NATO/Ukraine/whoever…
Maybe he just hasn’t seen all the evidence yet. He just started after all.
Yes, it will take him some time to sift through all the secret intel that only popes get to see lol.
Ffinally! It was shameful how Francis was dancing around the subject, trying REALLY HARD to not name russia as the invader.
W POPE
This is a very much welcomed change from Francis.
Nice! Too bad Russia’s Eastern Orthodox not Catholic.
They are not Orthodox either so 🤷🏼♀️
Edit: it’s controlled by the FSB you bongheads
Well, the Russian Orthodox Church is Eastern Orthodox and more than half of all Eastern Orthodox live in Russia 🤷🏼♀️
Such moral courage 🙄
