Holy Wars

The Pope and the President are beefing: but it's not really about religion, or Iran

The Pope and the President are beefing in the tweets. Did Donald Trump commit blasphemy by posting a meme of himself as a savior-like figure healing the sick, or was it just a funny joke? Did the Pope overstep his lane by weighing in (repeatedly) on American foreign policy in the Middle East, or is he speaking truth to power?

Is MAGA going straight to hell now? Or are we already there?

Populist Right vs Pope-ulist Left

Trump and the late Pope Francis

As some of you know, I am a happy and grateful convert to Catholicism from secularism nothingness. I would be Catholic no matter who the Pope or the Cardinals were. I love traditional mass, including the Latin mass. I am totally allergic to liberal masses that feature modern rock music, guitars, and interpretive dancers. Mass should be about one thing: getting you to heaven.

That’s a lot easier when it’s not making you sick with postmodern art, terrible modern architecture, and homilies about how racist white Catholics need to be more accepting of fifty million arrivals from the third world (yes, I’ve heard this).

Pope Leo spoke out repeatedly against the war in Iran. I, too, wish this war hadn’t happened, but for different reasons.

Some hysterical pundits on X spent last week trying to claim that any criticism of Pope Leo is a sin and to do so means you are not actually Catholic.

Of course, many of the same people spent years criticizing Pope Francis, who was a right-wing content goldmine. Between inviting busloads of transgender men to the Vatican to telling a newspaper that he hated conservative Catholics to elevating the worst, most woke Bishops in the United States to positions of power—Francis never failed to chum the water with rage bait for his conservative critics (me included).

But no one is judging Pope Leo for his reverence or holiness or adherence to doctrine. There, he seems perfectly, well, Catholic. His stations of the cross procession around the Coliseum was quite moving. He has been extremely reverent and indeed infallible when it comes to matters of the liturgy and practice of his faith. That is such a good thing—a pope who is wholeheartedly into being the pope.

I had high hopes for this pope, despite his openly liberal pieties. After all, in his former life, he had a mile-long tweet trail that plainly revealed him as a stock Boomer liberal and a leftie Sixties holdover.

Father Bob, as he was called during his decades ministering to poor villages in Peru, is who he has always been. Obviously he’s going to speak out against war—that is fine. I’m not a big fan of the war in Iran either and wish we had not taken part in it! But my reasons are probably different from the Pope’s lol.

The issue, then, is not that the Pope can’t condemn war or violence. Of course, he can and he should. As fallen as the world is, no one wants a Pope screaming for people to kill each other.

The issue is that he also speaks out quite a bit about immigration. A lot. Specifically, a country’s right to enforce its own laws.

In fact, he seems to condemn any attempt by the United States to take control of its borders, enforce its laws, prevent its citizens from being victimized and murdered by aliens, and vet who it allows into the country.

When the Pope talks about immigration as a human right and that there should be no limits or laws that impede the free flow of humanity into Europe or the U.S., he is being quite political.

His stance on this underscores what everyone suspected about his election as pope: that he was intended to act as a counterweight of sorts to the man the institutional Church hates almost as much as it hates Satan: Donald J. Trump.

And then there is his plan to spend July 4th, the day of his own nation’s 250th birthday, visiting a tiny Italian island of 6,000 people that has become overrun by immigrants on boats seeking to invade Europe. In 2023, 80,000 immigrants, mostly Muslim and African men, landed there.

“The Vatican has said the pope will not visit the US in 2026 and instead plans to spend July 4th – the 250th anniversary of US independence – on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, which is a major landing point for immigrants.”

It is crystal clear what message he hopes to send with this trip. “Immigration from the third world without limits is good, and if you don’t agree, you are not Catholic. Europe and America must welcome all the world’s poor because it is what God wants.”

In other words, the Church, with the help of leftwing American media and the Democrat party, seems to be setting up a stark choice for us: if you want to consider yourself Catholic, you better forget about controlling immigration.

Nancy Pelosi, however, is still allowed to receive communion on her forked tongue.

The College of Cardinals: as Woke as Harvard College

The liberals at the top understand that their days are numbered and that there’s a new Catholic Church growing up beneath them spinning out of their control. There are now some major attempts by globalist liberals to co-opt him and groom him to be part of their resistance—and it seems to be working.

After all, the “open the borders of the first world and let the third world in” is not Pope Leo’s original idea. This predates his elevation to pope, nearly his entire cohort of boomer bishops and cardinals also believe this.

The College of Cardinals, overwhelmingly made up of liberal boomers, very obviously wanted to install someone who could lead the fight against the dangerous tyrant who was putting the institution’s number one mission in jeopardy worldwide (by putting Americans first).

If you thought the modern Church’s mission was about minting new saints and saving lost souls, you would be wrong.

Instead, I am sorry to report that the modern Catholic church has inexplicably decided that there only mission now is: to ensure the steady flow of illegal immigration from the third world into the first.

The three boomer Cardinals featured on 60 Minutes—Tobin, Cupich, and McElroy, recently exemplify this archetype. If you saw the interview, all they could talk about was how awful it was that people are being deported and that mass immigration is a human right, blah blah blah. These three were elevated by Pope Francis, were close with Uncle Ted McCarrick, and exemplify the old order of liberal “velvet mafia” Vatican corruption.

Meanwhile, you have lots of new Catholics pouring into the church. Conversions are way up. Young people are choosing faith. The Easter Vigil People are coming into the church DESPITE these liberal American cardinals, NOT because of them.

To these men, they don’t want new Catholics in America. They know that the people who are converting are not doing it because of them—they are converting in spite of them.

Tobin, McElroy, and Cupich had the nerve to take credit for the influx, of course.

But they know that people are seeking out Catholicism because it is an ESCAPE from the progressive ideals that these same cardinals have been pushing for so long. The new converts want tradition, and the Church remains one of the few surviving institutions where you can still get it. There is Latin. There is art. There are Gregorian chants. There is reverence. There is holy music. There are no pride flags (unless you’re in San Francisco).

And there is God.

Over the last 20 years in the United States, there has been an organic growth of more traditional worship and piety in the Catholic Church. Communities have grown up around schools and parishes all over the country that emphasize the liturgical traditions and more devout practice of Catholicism. This has happened in reaction to modernist bishops, NOT because of them.

You may recall that in the early 2000s, Los Angeles was being ruled under the iron fist of Cardinal Roger Mahony. He was suppressing people we know in the way they practiced their faith. He despised traditional forms of worship. In many parishes, you weren’t allowed to kneel during the consecration. He built the “Taj Mahony,” the hideous post-modern mess of a cathedral in Downtown Los Angeles.

Oh, and he also presided over a massive child abuse ring and was singlehandedly responsible for covering it up and costing the L.A. Archdiocese $1 billion in victim payouts—the largest amount ever.

In 2007, he was removed from the right to perform mass in public.

Roger now lives in emeritus status…on the campus of a North Hollywood Catholic elementary school (!), last I heard.

The reaction to creeps like Roger Mahony has been to find parishes where they don’t exist. Parishes where the pastors are reverent and traditional and don’t try to make the entire mass about feeling bad for strangers in a foreign country.

The reaction to liberal priests has been an explosion in “trad” parishes. If you go to certain parishes across the country, you will find Latin mass, pews filled with large families and women nursing babies, veils, and a mass blissfully free of Democrat party talking points from the pulpit.

This is all happening organically after years of declining mass attendance, shrinking parishes, and emptying Catholic schools. The liberal bishops have been sitting atop a crumbling empire for decades, and the resurgence, which is real but still small, is something they are desperate to seize and claim for themselves.

Pope Benedict understood this and liked it. He tried to help these communities by liberalizing the traditional Latin mass and favoring more traditional forms of catholic worship. The three bishops on 60 Minutes stand in stark opposition to this small organic movement.

There are still more people leaving the church than coming into it, but the people coming into it are coming in because they’re attracted to this grass roots, traditional movement.

The three Cardinals on 60 Minutes understand this perfectly well, and are stepping into the limelight and attempting to co-opt Pope Leo’s celebrity to fight against this movement towards tradition.

The Real War

This brings me to what this war of words is really about.

It’s not about anti-war vs. pro-war. No one in their right mind is pro-war, not even Donald Trump. He believes he is doing the right thing to prevent a much worse war later on—and maybe he’s right.

It’s not about whether or not the Pope can speak out about politics or foreign policy or government actions.

It’s not about whether you are allowed to criticize the pope or not.

It’s not even right vs left.

The real war, the slow-motion World War 3, is the one that is now being fought in every city in America and all across Europe, Australian, and the entire Western world. The war of first-world native citizens vs third-world supremacists who want to milk them and then eat them.

I’m speaking figuratively, but you never know!

It’s a war between those who built successful Christian countries and churches and towns and armies and fought to protect their priceless glories—and enormous numbers of young men from the third world who are marching forth to seize it from them.

The United Kingdom is now the rape capital of the world, thanks to gangs of Pakistani Muslim immigrants running rape rings that prey on white English girls.

Rape is now prevalent across the formerly safe countries of northern Europe. Thousands of young children and women of all ages have been raped and killed by third-world immigrants and “refugees.”

I guess I missed the Gospel passage where Jesus insists that you have to watch your daughters and wives raped by foreigners if you wish to enter Heaven.

Why is this happening? Because in the first world, many people, especially liberal boomers, believe that their relative prosperity is all thanks to their racist ways, and that it’s not fair that third-world countries are poor. They attribute this poverty to racism and colonial oppression. The liberal boomer’s guilt is unbearable to them. The only way to find any relief from the agony is to apologize for having privilege—and to open the floodgates. “Now you all can enjoy the things we only attained through our racist and closed-minded ways. In fact, we probably stole what we have from you.”

The first world is a victim of its own success: we aren’t making enough babies, we went into massive debt sending trillions to feed the rest of the world, and we were lulled into sleepy contentment thinking that sending money and food and medicine would be reparations enough.

But once they got a taste, and saw Pamela Anderson running on a beach in a bathing suit, a lot of them paid the nearest smuggler to get them on a rubber raft to Lampedusa.

Smugglers actually use videos in social media posts of pretty European girls at clubs to lure customers to buy passage to Europe. They are advertising their trips by showcasing the availability of young white girls they can have (nonconsensual) sex with in Europe.

Forcing Americans and European natives to choose between being good Catholics and preserving their own nations in the face of ruinous invasion? That seems to me to be cruel, foolish, and misguided. This is a case where political expediency has reduced the Cardinals to threatening to withhold salvation unless you adhere to their modernist interpretation of “love thy neighbor.”

I do love my neighbors! Which is exactly why I don’t want them harmed or replaced by Afghan refugees who need to be taught by social workers not to rape little boys or farm animals. I don’t think America needs 300,000 Haitians cooking cats on spits in Ohio. I prefer not to have Somalis robbing us blind via multi-billion-dollar frauds an all going on welfare. We have plenty of homegrown all-American losers and criminals and pedophiles. We don’t need to import them!

By the way, I am praying for Pope Leo. You should too.

So what do you think? Am I going straight to hell? Or is there hope for me yet? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for reading!

—Peachy

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