Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is the first American pontiff. But don’t get too excited about that:
Traditionally, cardinals have not wanted anyone from a superpower, and a cardinal from the Trumpian one might seem even more unlikely. Robert Prevost, however, has been called “the least American of the Americans” by the Italian media….
What do we know about Leo’s views on current controversies?
He has been critical of President Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented migrants to Latin America, and in February of this year responded on X to the vice-president’s efforts to justify the policy, saying: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
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On April 14, Prevost retweeted a post referencing the deportation of an undocumented migrant to El Salvador, which read in part: “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?”
That would be MS-13 gang member, human trafficker and wife beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The sympathies of leftists flow in only one direction.
Reverend Mark Francis, a friend of Prevost with whom he attended seminary, said that the new pope was a firm supporter of Francis’s papacy….
Reportedly, Prevost was a substitute for the original left-wing candidate, a cardinal from the Philippines.
Habemus papam? Habemus problem! One would be tempted to say that the Catholic Church can’t survive two left-wing papacies back to back, but for the fact that it has survived much worse.
