Meet the New American Pope of the Catholic Church
PJ Media,
by
Catherine Salgado
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Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/8/2025 3:00:26 PM
Habemus papam — we have a pope, and progressive Catholics will likely be pleased. And for the first time ever, the pope is an American.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, is an American who also has Peruvian citizenship. He was a favorite of the late Pope Francis but has often kept a fairly low public profile, meaning that while his tendencies indicate a less traditional and strictly doctrinal perspective, his likely actions as pope have yet to be clearly predicted. But his first speech ominously seemed much in line with progressive rhetoric.
It is unfortunate that the new pope was a favorite of the late Pope Francis, who prioritized leftist politics
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/8/2025 3:07:42 PM (No. 1947053)
Looks like the leftward tilt will continue. And he is only 69.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jdano 5/8/2025 3:16:38 PM (No. 1947058)
1. He's younger than me. That's disturbing. 2. He's opposed to LGBQ. That's good. 3. He's critical of Trump's deportation policy. He's a Peruvian citizen. So, there you go. Looks like we got another loser.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
downnout 5/8/2025 3:21:06 PM (No. 1947061)
It doesn’t look like the church is going to become Catholic anytime soon.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FormerDem 5/8/2025 3:23:57 PM (No. 1947062)
He is pro-life and does not compromise doctrine. And of course he is pro-poor. For God's sake. ... Also meaningful: this election came on the feast day of Our Lady of Pompeii, a shrine set up by an ex-Satanist and lawyer, Bartolo Longo, who converted at mid-life and set out to serve God and revive the faith in a poor and discouraged and faithless place. And his efforts were the best he could do but he did not really know what to do. His efforts would be kind of funny and hopeless looking were it not that God crowned them with miracles. It is now a widely loved shrine and feastday. In the grace of this day, here is hoping all Satanists turn to our Lady for help getting to Heaven instead. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
daisey 5/8/2025 3:41:06 PM (No. 1947068)
He’s already complaining about Trump’s stance on illegal immigration. Ok, then tear down the 39 ft wall around the Vatican and let anyone enter. I grew up with the Latin mass and I had to wear a head covering of some sort. Then came the hootenanny mass. Nope. And now, I don’t know what to think.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 5/8/2025 3:41:20 PM (No. 1947069)
Let's wait and see before start criticizing. I am a practicing catholic. Didn't like Francis at all. I like the name he chose and the order he is from. He will have to deal with the lavender mafia, pedofilia in the clergy and traffic of minors. Let alone poverty in the world. Not an easy task. May God help him
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
john56 5/8/2025 3:49:11 PM (No. 1947075)
More proof nothing decent has come out of Chicago. Sounds like Pope Franky as a leftist from Chicago.
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The previous Pope was an American too
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sunnyday 5/8/2025 3:55:34 PM (No. 1947081)
#5. I and mine do not care what the pope thinks about our President. He has no authority over our President.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 5/8/2025 3:56:00 PM (No. 1947082)
One Communist pope followed by another Communist pope, it sounds like to me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/8/2025 4:17:54 PM (No. 1947095)
I'm done with the catholic church. I prayed that Cardinal Robert Sarah would have been our next Pope. You would know that the Cardinals had to pick a new pope to the left of Francis.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/8/2025 4:29:24 PM (No. 1947100)
He was ordained Cardinal in 2024. Seems to me he was fast tracked which means he might be Francis chosen successor. Time will tell. He doesn't have to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor. He was leader of a group in the Vatican that chose future Bishops, so he was shaping the church.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NullUnit60 5/8/2025 4:29:36 PM (No. 1947101)
Here's to the new boss. Same as the old boss.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 5/8/2025 4:43:12 PM (No. 1947108)
One of the NBC commentators upon finding out the new Pope is from America quickly said, "He's not too American, he spent most of his time in Peru. She said as if being American was a negative on his part.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/8/2025 5:05:53 PM (No. 1947114)
Not Catholic myself, but my sons are & I was REALLY lucky to have benefitted from wonderful Catholic school education! Frankly, he doesn't really strike me as a particularly 'political' individual....guess we'll soon find out. I, too, love the name he chose, and I'm a big fan of St. Augustine, so there's that!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/8/2025 5:06:16 PM (No. 1947115)
Greatest Trump troll of all time: Say he is kicking the UN out of the USA and that real estate, since the pope is an American, to be the home of the new Vartican.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
buckeye1 5/8/2025 5:15:12 PM (No. 1947118)
He's not going to be pigeon-holed by politics. He votes in the GOP primaries. He is pro life and he has a concerned for the marginalized people. Bottom line is that ALL rhe prognostigaors got this selection wrong. It was, they thought, going to be Parolin.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 5/8/2025 5:25:08 PM (No. 1947127)
The "American pope" turns out to actually be a Peruvian pope.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Tusker 5/8/2025 5:28:05 PM (No. 1947128)
Pope Francis stacked the deck with 163 cardinals from 76 countries ensuring the installation of his clone Robert Prevost.
So much for the Holy Spirit playing any part of this charade.
Robert Prevost is not "The Church". Robert Prevost is Robert Prevost. A continuing disaster of a story yet to be written.
"The Church" will prevail.
Robert Prevost will not.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
happywarrior 5/8/2025 5:55:01 PM (No. 1947138)
Alas, we will never have another Pope John Paul II.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/8/2025 6:35:05 PM (No. 1947157)
Saul Alinsky infused the Chicago Catholic church with a social justice activism cancer that has spread through the whole church.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
kono 5/8/2025 7:32:34 PM (No. 1947178)
Meet the new Pope
Much like the old Pope.
May God guide Leo's intentions, bless his actions, and guard him from secular influence.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
privateer 5/8/2025 7:40:17 PM (No. 1947184)
per 9. to have authority over our President, his robe would have to be black, not white.
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No, he's not an American. That's a cover. He's Peruvian.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
slipstik 5/8/2025 10:21:43 PM (No. 1947244)
The Catholic Church cannot survive two communist popes in a row. Disintegration will start within a year.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
aliciacolon 5/9/2025 5:04:54 AM (No. 1947311)
Hmmm.. He's a Republican/ Wonder whom he voted for in 2024.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 5/9/2025 5:22:44 AM (No. 1947316)
Here’s what our Elders at Creekside Bible Church in Cupertino CA, both raised Catholic, say…
https://withallwisdom.org/2025/05/07/episode-121-biblical-reflections-on-the-papacy/
TBIYTC
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Sully 5/9/2025 5:46:21 AM (No. 1947323)
If Pope Leo will avoid blabbing incoherent reversals of doctrine to media assassins in airports...
If he will at least utter cogent encyclicals that don't mystify his own bishops and clarify when begged to by them...
I'll hear the man out and judge his wisdom as he shows it.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/9/2025 7:58:29 AM (No. 1947399)
He seems to be midway between Benedict and Francis. He is not down with the gay and trans nor is he in favor of women ordination. He is pro-immigration but I think all of them are. He is quite scholarly and has a reputation of thinking before he opens his mouth. I'm 74 and have been a Catholic all my life and will stay a Catholic. I don't think Leo is going to be a disruptor
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/9/2025 8:03:08 AM (No. 1947409)
From Wikipedia -
"According to voter registration records, Prevost voted in the Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in Illinois's Republican primaries in 2012, 2014, and 2016, but has never registered for a political party."
#26, this information suggests that Leo XIV voted for Obie in 2008. Difficult to tell where he directed his republican support in the Illinois primaries. He has been critical of President Trump on a number of matters including the George Floyd thing. It appears that he is a never-Trumper. No wonder why Francis liked him.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/9/2025 8:32:58 AM (No. 1947419)
He’s not Peruvian. He has dual citizenship. I’m in wait and see mode.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/9/2025 8:52:07 AM (No. 1947424)
He's not American, and people love their dogs a lot more than this guy.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MakingSense 5/9/2025 8:52:46 AM (No. 1947425)
New Pope. Same leftist (or perhaps worse) policies.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/9/2025 9:40:54 AM (No. 1947441)
Com'on folks...let's give the Pope a chance...trying to read his mind is fruitless....he will be Pope Leo XIV and WE will know how he will serve the church....soon enough...I'm a Catholic and had difficulties with Pope Francis...but I loved Pope John Paul so I prayed to him to help me endure the Pope Francis years....I try not to question God's decisions....He is in charge....and I will deal with my church as best I can...always going back to Pope John Paul for insight and reflection....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
janjan 5/9/2025 10:33:07 AM (No. 1947484)
I hope I don’t offend any Catholics here but being appointed as head of the Catholic Church does not bestow any authority at all over US policy, culture or politics. As a non-Catholic I don’t really care who they choose.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
FormerDem 5/9/2025 10:55:34 AM (No. 1947500)
He is a registered Republican though he used to be a Democrat. Sounds like an awful lot of us... The paper in Ecuador says that during COVID 19 when Peru had the highest mortality rate in the world, he used to walk the deserted streets with a reliquary, blessing and bringing comfort to people. He is a very steady pro-lifer, compassionate to sinners which is fortunate for Every Single One Of Us, adherent to Catholic teaching on sex and marriage, and simply Catholic. If you don't like Catholic teaching you might not like him, but if you are looking for love, joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.... Habemus Papam.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/9/2025 11:53:07 AM (No. 1947540)
As soon as I heard this Cardinal criticize J.D. Vance and President Trump, I thought there goes another Pope Francis. BTW he was just promoted by the Pope last year. He was a missionary in Peru, SA, like Pope Francis, so there's that similarity.
Something else I heard. Money. The American Catholics have stopped giving money because the Vatican has behind the open borders chaos and the U.S. Catholics are none too happy. Rome is bankrupt and need money and they think they'll get it from the U.S.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/9/2025 12:45:36 PM (No. 1947570)
It seems Leo is a Francis Clone. Let's see how this goes..........
I grew up going to Catholic Schools grades 3 - 8, then went to public high school.
I gave up on the Catholic Church when I heard about the Pedo Priests. It is clear to me that the Popes never really fixed that mess. My son was baptized by a Priest and we found out he was a Pedo and the Archbishop knew about it and just moved him around to hide hide his Pedoisms.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/9/2025 12:49:30 PM (No. 1947571)
Curiously, Steve Bannon called Cardinal Prevost as possible Pope. I think it could have been much worse. Parolin is totally pro LGBTQDEI and Climate Changer.
There are some Augustinian friars that still offer the Augustinian Mass which is a slightly modified Traditional Latin Mass. Leo XIV speaks many languages and his deliver in Italian, Spanish and Latin was impeccable. Being head of the Augustinian Friars took him all over the world.
His choice of name is interesting. Leo XIII wrote the social doctrine of the Church in Rerum Novarum. It was the response to Marxism, basically supporting worker unions. The main component is the Principle of Subsidiarity that states that the Church should support the social organizations closest to the people, starting with the family, then civil society organizations (including Unions), and only then government city, province, King. The Principle of Subsidiarity can be used for much good.
Let’s hope Leo XIV will be a holy Pope. First test will be whether he returns to the Apostolic Palace or stays at the Santa Marta Hotel.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Msquared112 5/9/2025 1:20:18 PM (No. 1947592)
From what I am reading in various sources, this new Pope will not be an improvement over the old one.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/9/2025 2:38:45 PM (No. 1947617)
I was daydreaming that Pope Francis' replacement might have the same result on the Catholic faith as President Trump has had on world politics, i.e. new life. I fear, though, that the Catholic faith will continue to be less and less, rather than more and more, until it is indistinguishable from any other religion. Though, Christ said that, "The gates of hell will not prevail against it."
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/9/2025 3:47:30 PM (No. 1947643)
Just discovered a few interesting facts about our new Pope.
May 8, the date that Pope Leo XIV was elected is Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's birthday. Fulton Sheen was quoted as saying that it would be the Laity who saves the church.
May 8th is the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel. Pope Leo XIII (Pope's predecessor) was author of St. Michael the Archangel Prayer (read these two facts on Catholics for Catholics site)
St. Michael the Archangel and Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Great intercessors for our new Pope. (there are no coincidences)
Hopefully, the St. Michael the Archangel Prayer would again be said after every mass as it was before Vatican II.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
danu 5/9/2025 4:15:18 PM (No. 1947656)
i want my Church back. and i shall have it so. regrettably, the Almighty did not provide a date and time.
seems what we have now is a white elephant. (meet the new pope, same as the old pope).
however, Bannon knows his onions. he called this race months ago. he also picked pdt, and stuck w/ him--
raging nyc dem playboy that he was, notwithstanding.
God made the man, the instrument, and protected him from the very Inferno itself.
this pontiff won't get the time of day-or the dosh- from us-w lowball insults and leftoid claptrap.
we want peace. but are prepared for war.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Miamiwarrior 5/9/2025 6:06:17 PM (No. 1947712)
Hopefully the new Pope is not a die hard leftist, he's been critical of Trump in tweets. However, on a positive note he is a registered Republican
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
volksford 5/9/2025 6:28:48 PM (No. 1947719)
True # 9 but I have been thinking that the Pope has some influence on our Supreme Court , since John Roberts ( a loyal Knight of Malta ) twisted himself into a pretzel to ok Obamacare. The Vatican has always been supportive of universal health care and of course the Knights swear allegiance above all to the Pope. It sure is strange how he made this convoluted decision and left for Malta the next day. I am not Catholic bashing but something about that decision sure as hell aint right.
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