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Sounds like a threat.
Apparently, back in January, a State Department official made a reference to the Avignon Papacy to the Vatican’s chief diplomat.
For those not familiar with the geopolitical history of Europe and the Catholic Church, this was a period in the 1300s where the French monarchy did their level best to basically co-opt and strong arm the church so they could squeeze money out of them, and led to a schism for a time.
Put another way: that is by far the most thinly-veiled direct threat I’ve ever heard anyone make to the Vatican in my life.
Peter Thiel is trying to buy himself a papacy.
Can't forget that Vance killed the last pope 🤷♂️
Nice pope you have there, would be a shame if he received a visit from US VP.
death did give him the powers of a reaper. currently he has killed 3 things, last pope, orban's election and the iran's deal.
Nah, he's just so toxic that only Americans can tolerate his (and GOP's in general) toxicity.
Activate the ninja bishops
One Cardinal sniper would do