I refuse to believe a priest came up with the upside down St. Joseph thing. that’s 100% Nonna-coded.

I think there's a strain of Catholic converts who are attracted to Catholicism because its formalized theology and milllenia of writings lend itself well to Debate Culture but then they eventually find out the Church is not actually interested in debating them

Catholics will be like “yoga is demonic” and then have 15 different magical amulets, cards, and gemstones.

Leo really is saying that we're terminally online and need to touch grass.

I’m a broken record about living in a time of parables but look at Marco Rubio and tell me this isn’t a dude that was locked in a fight to the death with his own soul that he “won”.

I have never seen someone technically alive that was so full of death.

And stepkids, and adopted and foster kids, and kids who live with an aunt. It's MEANT to only stick it to LGBTQ people which is bad enough, but in practice it's hurting children of all kinds.

you can always say skeet!

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

IMPEACH. REMOVE.

man what happened to those guys? I haven’t followed them since before Pope Leo was elected, but I thought they were better than this

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war]

President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay

Media: they are feuding😳

This is a dance-off. If you see this, repost with a dance.

Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You're a Good Man Is Hard To Find, Charlie Brown

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.

The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

Samaritans : Jews :: Muslims : Christians

another piece of evidence for my “Muslims are today’s Samaritans” theory

if Muslims aren’t the Samaritans of our age, I don’t know who is

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

really makes you think

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

Impeach, remove, prosecute Trump

Abolish ICE

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

“The Trump administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone…” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

just heard the archbishop of Miami take a swing at secular Calvinists on the bbc

hot medieval summer continues apace

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Bill Donohue, the Catholic League, and the Smell of Money When I published my initial post decrying the selective outrage of Bill Donohue and the Catholic League in response to President Trump’s diatribe against Pope Leo XIV, a reader — a retired tax lawyer ...

“And then came Sunday night. The man who built a compensation package worth hundreds of thousands of dollars annually — on the donations of faithful Catholics — defending Catholic dignity could not find it in himself to name what Trump did for what it was.”