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Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois' midterm election
(chicago.suntimes.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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Not sure the last part is that ironic, since he most likely believes in the separation of church and state.
He's literally the head of state because he's head of the church. He's the personified antithesis of the separation you're claiming he's in favor of 😄
Touche. Maybe more of a hypocrite then.
The Catholic church has a lot of very real very destructive problems happening, especially its entire pedophile cover ups problem. Be angry at the legitimately harmful stuff, not this "he's a 100% irredeemable evil hypocrite because he's a religious figure and head of state is possibly suggesting other nation not follow their example" nonsense.
Be angry at the pedo shit, not this pure ideology testing nonsense. I dont particularly give a shit if he's the head of state and head of the religion of a state that is over a milennium of treaties and compromises of European monarchs to create a sense of political-religious neutrality between their nations that doesn't particularly matter all that much in 2026. He seems to broadly support the extremely recent (in comparison to the Catholic Church) understanding of the separation of church and state.
I am.
Way to put words and sentiments in my mouth lol.
While I'm not a fan of theocracies under any circumstances, I'm never going to BEGIN to suggest that being a theocracy is one of the 50 worst thing about the reverse Robin Hood atrocity factory that is the Catholic Church.
I mean, it's not like I APPROVE the least bit but yeah, I totally agree that it's very small potatoes compared to all the radioactive horse apples..
Does he, though? I mean, if he does, he's the epitome of hypocrisy.
Might as well tell me that Miss Rachel is a zionist who can't stand kids or Bill Maher is a devout Muslim who hates attention 😄