The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy

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  1. >In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture.

    >“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side?.”

    >As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.

    second western schism 🔜

  2. AngryUncleTony on

    God, we are a nation of morons and deserve whatever happens to us.

    FUCK I’m just permanently embarrassed at this point.

  3. LMAO, I really wonder the cognitive dissidence the conservative Catholic members of my family are using to support this clusterfuck. The Church existed before America and will continue to exist if America goes the way of the dodo bird. Themis administration is filled with the most arrogant idiots alive. If it wasn’t destroying this country, it would be genuinely impressive how bad they are at their jobs

  4. Game_Of_Runs on

    Colby is such a weird man. I used to follow him on Twitter and was an interesting follow and would respond if you talked to him, but holy shit.

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