Just seeing the Papal conclave is already over and the church now has its first North American Pope, one Robert Prevost, or Leo XIV… that was faster than I thought it might be. Slightly concerned that I can’t currently find much information on the guy, though, his Wiki entry doesn’t actually list any of his particular positions on things at the moment, so I don’t know yet if he’s likely to be a good bad or indifferent thing… I suppose we’ll find that out in due course, though. He apparently has copped some flak for not dealing properly with sexual abuse reports, but that’s kind of par for the course, I’d be more surprised if someone high up in the Catholic church was doing something useful there… but he has also been snippy at the current US regime too:
“Ordo amoris” is a point on which J. Divans and Bob’s predecessor disagreed:
Vance, a Catholic, had in a late January interview invoked an “old school … Christian concept” he later identified as the “ordo amoris,” which he said teaches that one’s “compassion belongs first” to one’s family and fellow citizens, “and then after that” to the rest of the world.
“[Y]ou love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,” Vance said.
Writing to the U.S. bishops on the topic of migration, the pope wrote Feb. 10 that “an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized,” which he said “does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration.”
However, “this development cannot come about through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others,” Pope Francis said.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” the Pope wrote. […]
Writing at the National Catholic Register, commentator Father Raymond de Souza opined that Pope Francis, far from advocating open borders, rather condemns “a closing of the heart to immigrants, a denigration of their dignity and the political exploitation of their plight.”
“[T]he conflict between the Holy Father and Vance is likely more about language than theology. It is difficult to hear in the Trump-Vance rhetoric love for the immigrant, whether properly ordered or not. Francis insists that even those refused entry, or returned, are to be treated with dignity and fit within the ordo amoris,” Father de Souza wrote.
Mind you, given his recent response to Mushroom Cock’s picture of himself as the Pope, I suspect that the erstwhile Mr Bowman probably doesn’t give much of a shit for what the Pope thinks, whoever he may be…
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