Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
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According to his Wiki page:
"In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio."
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Deus vult!
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Man if only the church had deep pockets and treasure to donate to the poor and the people suffering
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Yeah adult convert, which unless you're like marrying a catholic, tend to be the weird Mel Gibson brand.
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anyone who decides to become catholic is doing it for social gain or deeply hates themselves.
catholicism is built on the foundation of "you're guilty, you're born guilty."
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I grew up in a small Catholic town in NM. Everyone here is Catholic, even non Catholics have taken up Catholic traditions. So much so that when I left home I thought all of those things were normal American traditions, having no idea they were rooted in Catholicism.
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Eh, Caritas is a corrupt organization anyway
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And? Dictator Musk doesn't give a shit about that. His sidekick Cheeto doesn't care either
At best this'll generate an "uh huh" whilst they continue to rob he state blind and setup his dictatorship
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It might be (I'm not defending them here), but even the Catholic Church sometimes do some good. What Muskolini, the Orungutan in Chief and Brocolli Balls are doing is so despicable and evil, even the Church is justified in their criticism. The level of destruction they're causing is quickly escalating to the levels of what was done in Europe during WWII, the Stalinist purges, the Cultural revolution and the massacres of the Khmer Rouge. They might not be there yet, but they sure as hell are trying to speed run it.
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Yes.....but no. American Catholic fundamentalism has little to do with the actual Catholic church. They're basically a renegade sect of the church who believes the new Pope is woke because he's brown.
They've steadily infiltrated the highest offices in the nation, but especially the judicial branch. They're essentially high brow versions of southern evangelicals, with more cash and an ahistorical chip on their shoulder in regards to America's relations to prejudice against traditional Catholics in the 19th and early 20th century.
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Europeans waiting for the US to give them billions of free aid after complaining about how we're evil
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Bergoglio brown?
He is considered woke because even in the church there are factions and he belongs to the one which is slightly more open on certain topics, or at least embraced (initially) a more populistic façade that pretended the church was modernizing.
In fact criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.
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When I was seven years old, we visited the Vatican. We were walking around and saw there was some little exhibit hall down some stairs sort of out of the way that no one was going to. So we went in there. Inside were all the horse-drawn papal carriages. A dozen of them, all covered in gold.
Even at that age, all I could think was, "there are people starving in the world..."
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They do use their liquid assets for that, but not selling the illiquid ones like art and real estate. I think it'd be a shame to turn cathedrals into shopping malls, but maybe it's worth putting the money to good use.
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Brocolli Balls?
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Bergoglio brown?
I don't know his actual ethnicity, but to a lot of European Catholics anyone from South America is brown at least by association. It was kinda a big deal that he was the first Pope from the southern hemisphere.
criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.
I didn't claim it was?
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That little twerp with Brocolli-like hair. His on-line alias is "Big Balls".
It's this asshole here: https://www.newsweek.com/who-big-balls-teen-doge-engineer-edward-coristine-2027698
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I was seven years old, we visited the Vatican
That's a scary thought right there.
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To be fair, it was literally just to see the art. My family is Jewish but my parents absolutely loved art and instilled a love of art in me very early on.
Fun story- my dad, much like me, had very stereotypical Jewish features- the big, hooked nose, the curly hair, that sort of thing. So right outside the Vatican, we're looking at a souvenir stand, and the man behind the stand says to my father, in Yiddish, "what's a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?" My dad replies back, also in Yiddish (this is all second-hand, I don't know any Yiddish), "what's a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this?" And he said, "a man's got to make a living!"
