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MAZE @mazemoore - Biden called the Pope “the great African American baseball player.” 🤣
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2042066323270709730

MAZE @mazemoore - For some reason Nate Silver left this account off of his nifty chart.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2042065264523546748

Megan Basham @megbasham - So maybe I don’t get this because I’m not Catholic, but even if I believed this story, the pope is obviously a lefty. He blessed a piece of ice in honor of climate change for Pete’s sake. I don’t get why the Trump Admin would want him at any events.
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Christopher Hale @ChristopherHalee
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.
That scene, broken this week by Mattia Ferraresi in an extraordinary piece of journalism for The Free Press, may be the most remarkable moment in the long and knotted history of the American republic’s relationship with the Catholic Church.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
https://x.com/megbasham/status/2042069386823954436