| ▲ | ksaj 11 hours ago |
| Given that the religion usually attributed to influencing the GOP inner circle is evangelical protestant, I don't think the pope will hold much sway. It certainly does make sense that he would want to let the world know that Christianity in general is being highly weaponized in this war. It's just not going to faze the powers that are stoking this on. |
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| ▲ | arter45 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I get your point, but 1) trying is better than not, especially as a Pope 2) you can still follow his reasoning as a "generic" Christian, because what he's saying is backed in the Bible (especially, but not exclusively, the New Testament). In other words, you don't need to be a Catholic to get that message. |
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| ▲ | FearNotDaniel 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Also, Mrs Trump is Catholic and in the past they made a big deal out of being photographed with Pope Francis to appeal to Catholic voters. | | |
| ▲ | defrost 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's also the mini Trump in waiting, J D Vance, baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 2019. | | |
| ▲ | isleyaardvark 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Vance has a book coming out all about his conversion to Catholicism. (It has a photo of a Methodist church on the cover.) | | |
| ▲ | shawn_w 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | To be faaaair, authors usually don't have any control over the cover design; that's the publishers decision. |
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| ▲ | wqaatwt 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Vance is Catholic and Thiel is kind of leaning that direction in weird ways, though. And Catholics are still a very significant voting block for Republicans (of course quite a few are likely single issue but they specifically might take the pope’s views a bit more seriously as well than more liberal Catholics) |
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| ▲ | uxhacker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Catholics in Trumps cabinet are not just JD Vance, but Marco Rubio, Sean Duffy, John Ratcliffe, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I think this is one of the most Catholic-heavy administrations in US history. It includes not just the VP, Secretary of State, intelligence chief, but also major domestic roles. | | |
| ▲ | ksaj 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Surely, but you've named people who most definitely are in the party of people stoking this on. |
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| ▲ | ThunderSizzle 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Many Catholics were Democrats, although their recent insanity in the last 10 years made many realize the Democrats have nothing resembling them. Many Catholics currently feel politically lost, as weird as that is. You have so many "Catholics" running around DC, but few of them can or will regurgitate any of the teachings of the Church, Biden being the most recent prominent example. Many are hopeful that JD Vance might finally fill that gap, but atheists and Evangelicals will probably keep their alliance growing rather than permit traditional Catholicism to have a revival politically. | | |
| ▲ | wqaatwt 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | So Biden being nominally Catholic wasn’t good enough, JD Vance ‘practicing’ a semi-perverse form of Catholicism is going to be the savior, though? | | |
| ▲ | ThunderSizzle 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Please elaborate what semi-perverde form of Catholicism JD Vance follows. Biden promoted direct theology against church teaching. The most obvious was his public and private stance on abortion, and beyond that, the actual work he did to bring about more evil through that dark ritual. | | |
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