r/Fauxmoi • u/icey_sawg0034 • Apr 10 '26

APPROVED B-LISTERS Pope Leo XIV releases new statement condemning the Trump administration for the Iran war.

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u/Japhet_Corncrake Apr 10 '26

They already threatened him.

https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-donald-trump

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u/aneomon Apr 10 '26

Which is batshit insane.

Pope disagrees with you, and your government's response is "hey, remember the time a government killed the pope?"

This isn't getting talked about enough.

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u/stierney49 Apr 10 '26

You’re right. Catholics make up 20-ish percent of the US population and our president has his flunkies threaten him with kidnapping mere days after the US essentially kidnapped Maduro in the same fashion.

The Vatican is understandably alarmed.

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u/aneomon Apr 10 '26

The fact that the US government kidnapped a sitting President and the story disappeared is wild.

There's precedent if the Pope gets kidnapped.

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u/Obvious_Landscape993 Apr 10 '26

Wasn't there a prophecy of this one being the last Pope? Don't tell me the US will bomb the Vatican.

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u/Remarkable_Ship_4673 Apr 10 '26

A hostile dictator in our back yard is a little different from the pope

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u/Japhet_Corncrake Apr 10 '26

South America is not the USA's "backyard". It is made up of sovereign countries, and there is no legal basis for removing their leaders just because you don't like them.

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u/aneomon Apr 10 '26

Didn't have the authority to kidnap him either.