The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV spoke out against Russia’s continued war against Ukraine in an interview on May 9.
Speaking with Peruvian news outlet Semanario Expresión, Pope Leo condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, characterizing it as a "a true invasion, imperialist in nature, where Russia seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power.”
Pope Leo was appointed just earlier this week on May 8, following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at the age of 88. On May 7, cardinals officially opened the historic conclave in the Vatican to choose the next head of the Catholic Church.
By clearing naming Russia’s imperialist aspirations in Ukraine, the new pope’s comments come as a departure from his predecessor’s position on the war.
Thanks Pope Bob.
wow what a hot take. thank you, religion man
I had to rape 0 children to know that war is actually bad. But glad they figured it out the long way round.
So far:
- ☑ Condemns Trump
- ☑ Condemns Putin
- ☐ Condemns Netanyahu (partial)
I guess it’s a start, though I hope he calls them out more directly. He was pretty close to Francis after all, and Francis even donated his popemobile to be turned into a mobile clinic for Gaza (no doubt to draw media attention to what Israel is doing).
What’s your stance on protecting pedophiles mr. Pope?
I believe in the power of friendship. Old friends, good friends, true friends who got me here today, friends I can take to the park but not if there are any kids around…
And Xi?
Ffinally! It was shameful how Francis was dancing around the subject, trying REALLY HARD to not name russia as the invader.
Nice! Too bad Russia’s Eastern Orthodox not Catholic.
They are not Orthodox either so 🤷🏼♀️
Well, the Russian Orthodox Church is Eastern Orthodox and more than half of all Eastern Orthodox live in Russia 🤷🏼♀️
Damn, right after Putin said that he hopes for a good relationship with the pope too!
All he has to do is to stop the war and fly to The Hague.
Legend.
.ml in disarray.
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?
There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.
It’s cultural jamming, they just argue no matter the detail as their goal isn’t intellectual honesty or persuasion, it’s disruption of social fabric and generally drowning out any possible consensus.
In their defense, they learned it from watching corporate pr firms, but even those had resource constraints.
Hey @admiralpatrick, come say your catchphrase!
Anyway, the answer is: if they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
They just don’t like their cognitive dissonance challenged doesn’t matter who’s who. It hurts the peanut brain.
I tried to come up with an answer and I cant
Jesus was a tankie. I mean OK the Romans killed every Jewish firstborn but the Persian empire would have been even worst
What the hell is with the last few years and suddenly nobody knowing that “worse” and “worst” are two different words with different meanings?
phone keyboards universally suck.
Worldists cheerings for a guy who protect pedos if it allows their country to sell more bombs
herpists derping because anyone who isn’t perfect should be crucified
The world is cheering that the world pedo protecting org is not using its political influence to spread further political disarray. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
Ah yes Jesus would have wanted us to send more bombs. He famously talked about slapping back harder
Russia and Israel should stop their wars then
Maybe given that the two of them are allies, we should stop sending send weapons altogether.
Nobelshill
I hope he stays away from stairs and 3rd+story windows
And Vances, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Lmao these fucking memes are never gonna get old
Good lord…
I want to hang it on my wall…
Is there an higher res?
Definitely. At some point ‘enhance’ kind of stopped being a joke
So AI?
Yeah
He seems to be better than the last guy when it comes to Russia’s war. That guy really thought it was the fault of NATO/Ukraine/whoever…
Pope Francis was a Jesuit. When in 1773 the church dissolve the Jesuit order, many of them fled to Russia, where Catherine the Second gave them hospitality. The order was restored in 1814. Since then, Jesuits have always had a soft spot for Russia.
Not really that they were at fault, per se, he just wrongly assumed a better outcome would come if Ukraine surrendered. Personally, I think that would just give Russia and China the greenlight to expand further and faster.
War is peace
Apparently he also protects pedophiles.
He is Catholic after all. Luckily I live in a jurisdiction where it’s legal to refer to the Catholic Church as a “cult of child fuckers”, which seems a very accurate description in my opinion.
That guy really thought it was the fault of NATO/Ukraine/whoever…
Maybe he just hasn’t seen all the evidence yet. He just started after all.
Yes, it will take him some time to sift through all the secret intel that only popes get to see lol.
Are the kids still saying based? Might I nominate His Holy Basedness?
Religious MAGA nutts cry that their leader doesn’t believe Ukraine started the war.
Most maga nuts are protestant.
Evangelical, even.
Most maga nuts are
protestant.*Anti-christ
They do wear the mark on their forheads…
It seriously seems like they are trying to find the exact definition of a shitheel and act it out. It’s wild
Most maga nuts dont really accept the pope AS religious leader but instead some fat, wealthy fuckerfronm live tv, which is funny to think about.
all the tankies gunna hate this guy now
depends. If they are nevertheless happy with his social justice policies, they’re tankies, if they also hate his social policies anyway, they’re just closeted/crypto fascists.
I don’t think anyone slightly left will ever be happy with a Pope’s social policies because they are inevitably decades or centuries late to adjust to society. Francis started to open on welcoming homosexuals in the church, but he still said it’s a sin because any sex outside of mariage is a sin, and gay mariage is not allowed by the church.
Maybe Leo will make some new timid move like “maybe it’s not a sin after all, gotta think about it” but nothing revolutionary will happen.
Progressists as defined on Lemmy will never be elected pope.If any progressive has an opinion on the Catholic Church, it’s most likely that is that it should be wholly disbanded, its assets donated to the needy, its relics donated to museums, and its clergy investigated and arrested for crimes against children.
Not much love between the two groups, so imagining some sort of alignment of goals at any point just feels like a waste.
Donating all their assets to the needy is actually supposed to be an alignment of goals, and that’s why progressives find the church so frustrating.
Yeah, the church will always be a conservative institution, they oppose anything revolutionary. So on a good day they’ll take a “shame on you greedy heartless fuckers” approach to politicians and billionaires, but never the Robin Hood approach. But usually on the local level, you’ll just get your neighbourhood reactionary priest being a dick.
So does most of the western world, Russia doesn’t care.
Still, it’s important to remind the world about that, so that the world doesn’t give up on Ukraine and doesn’t elect Putinverstehers.
Most, except the hard right in the West, including Trump and his sycophants.
W POPE
This is a very much welcomed change from Francis.
Such moral courage 🙄
