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Relations between the U.S. and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official.

Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican's U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture.

"The United States," Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, "has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Smells like weakness to me.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

this reminds me of that Bogdanoff twins meme

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

How many divisions does he have?

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

So, it’s time to attack to Vatican?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Leo better be careful, when the US wanted a Polish Pope to support strikers and disrupt Poland, CIA just murdered John Paul I to get a Polish Pope.

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm kind of waiting for: God has decided to back Trump for now but patience wearing thin or some such similar ridiculousness in this reality.

~~Pope Leo XIV~~ Pope Bob

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

The Church started/was named by a global empire. By the time of Constantine, who would preside over Church commandment debates from the Pope's throne, Jesus's peace/humanism was erased from the church in favour of old testament's divine right of emperor to kill and steal. Heresy laws applied to interpreting bible as humanist Jesus instead of the blessing of warmongering.

Pope really needs to undo the pre dark ages warmongering changes to Christianity. Jesus was a reformer. Yahweh a demon son that usurped his father El. Jesus's father god was El not Yahweh.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 week ago

Totally forgot they assassinated the last one. What exactly did they gain from that?

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