Mastodawn

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7h ago

"And in reality I believe there are greater and more important issues such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion that would all take priority before that particular issue."

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7h ago

Leo replied:

"First of all, I think it's very important that the unity or division of the church should not revolve around sexual matters. We tend to think that when the church is talking about morality that the only issue of morality is sexual."

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7h ago

Justin McLellan reports that as Pope Leo returned from Africa, a reporter aboard the plane asked Leo his "thoughts about the decision of Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising to issue in his diocese a guide for blessings of people in relationships outside of sacramental marriage, which includes same-sex couples."

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/asked-about-same-sex-blessings-leo-says-other-issues-will-take-priority

Asked about same-sex blessings, Leo says other issues will take priority

"I think that the topic can cause more disunity than unity, and that we should look for ways to build our unity on Jesus Christ and what Jesus Christ teaches," Pope Leo XIV told journalists on the flight back to Rome from Equatorial Guinea.

National Catholic Reporter

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"They were fastened tightly together by the abortion issue, the key element of the culture war. Their fusion was a carefully engineered political operation."

And now Trump has torn that engineered fusion to bits, though whether some Catholics in the US will continue to follow their savior figure regardless of his attacks on their pope remains to be seen.

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"Their relationship to Trump long ago melded partisan politics with a cult of personality to form a revised religious identity.

In this theology, Trump is both king and Christ. ...

Since the Reagan presidency, the alliance between evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics has been the essential coalition of the reframed Republican party."

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"Though notoriously illiterate about religion – Trump once cited 'Two Corinthians' – he is keenly aware that he is venerated by white evangelical Christian nationalists. Despite his tribulations, white evangelicals remain among his strongest devotees. Christian nationalists pray at the altar of the church of Trump."

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"The most despised American in the world cannot bear the judgments of the most admired American in the world. Trump’s wounded pride has festered from envy into malice. Trump’s expectation of submission dashed, he flew into a fury, but his rage could not overawe Leo."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/trump-pope-leo-catholics

Trump cannot bear the judgments of Pope Leo

The political gap between US evangelicals and Catholics is widening. And Trump won’t tolerate authority outside his own

The Guardian