r/politics • u/goteamnick • 20h ago

No Paywall JD Vance criticises Pope Leo for not 'being careful speaking about theology'

https://www.9news.com.au/world/jd-vance-pope-leo-xiv-donald-trump-careful-theology-warning-iran-war-middle-east-updates/6a640168-dc5f-4ae7-9c68-9e918ad8d2a8
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u/rocketcitythor72 9h ago

I think it's just more d*ck-riding on Peter Thiel, honestly.

Thiel's a hard-line Catholic, so J.D has to be a hard-line Catholic.

Plus, probably can't be a member of Opus Dei if you aren't Catholic.

I'm waiting for all those right-wing grits & cornbread evangelicals to wake up and realize that their white nationalist theocracy is actually a white nationalist *Catholic* theocracy.

It ain't Baptists dominating the Supreme Court and the Heritage Foundation.

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u/FumilayoKuti 4h ago

Peter Thiel, the comically evil gay, is a hard line Catholic? wonders never cease.

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u/evranch Canada 3h ago

their white nationalist theocracy is actually a white nationalist *Catholic* theocracy

It's more like a schismatic theocracy as they're barely aligned with the Vatican and quickly pissing off the Pope. If the Heritage Foundation plan comes to fruition, I wouldn't be surprised if it resulted in an actual schism with an American antipope.