Pope Leo is fighting the good fight.

He is the source of the best prayer of all times:

The Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

No mention of tyrants in their account.

It’s enough to piss me off.

and it finally trickled over to their US version site.

They (almost) never miss an opportunity to soft-pedal and downplay criticism of the madness and evil of this regime

16 years of Catholic education can feel.

screeds over the next few hours/days. At some point Trump and his henchmen will threaten to arrest Leo, possibly even have him killed. We've been here before:

'Behind a Nazi Plot to Seize the Pope'

(NPR) "In September 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Nazis, and a secret plan to kidnap — and possibly kill — Pope Pius XII was under way."

"Adolf Hitler, whose mental condition was deteriorating, feared the Pope would speak out about Nazi actions against the Jews, and ordered his SS leader in Italy, Gen. Karl Wolff, to carry out the deed."

https://www.npr.org/2007/06/17/11096772/behind-a-nazi-plot-to-seize-the-pope

His reaction to every criticism is to prove the criticism is not only accurate, but understated, bigly.

Especially, his LieSocial.

The Pope is stating the obvious that everyone knows.

People within these aggressive countries don't want these dictators....The Pope can help them rise up....Just my opinion... we need someone to do this task.

Divine intervention?

but i really like pope Leo.

I haven't been to church in years, but I thank whatever powers that be for Pope Leo.

By the way, welcome to DU. Great people here!

...in this case I admire the guy.

whose stated religion is "whoever is paying the highest", and I love this Pope.

he has to vociferously distinguish himself from the vile, craven, and blasphemous loons who have hijacked and infested our government.

I am waiting for 45 to threaten to revoke his U.S. citizenship and that could set off a holy war within this country (especially when you have fake Catholics like Vance and Holman, doubling and tripling down on insulting the titular head of the church they claim to be a part of).

For his murderous rampage, as a holy crusade.

The blasphemy (in the eyes of the church) from these guys shouldn't go unanswered. They are saying that the Pope should stick to religion. When they invoke God to justify war and when they make genocidal threats, they are crossing the religious line (regardless of what you think about religion).

But then fake Catholic loonybin Vance doubles down and commands that the head of the church that he supposedly "converted" to, should "be careful" when speaking about "religion".

He needs to be excommunicated post haste and it's time to bring out the exorcists.

Their hypocrisy needs to be more prominent in the narrative of this story.

Trump and the Republican Party could not win elections without pandering to "conservative" Christians who are either too gullible to see these charlatans for what they are -- or are hypocrites themselves, flaunting their religiosity while rejecting the lessons of Jesus.

The military top brass from GWB era who stated that his god was bigger than Islams god?

Hoo,boy,Wikipedia has a very eye opening entry on him and his "Christian Nationalist" history.

But Man created God in man's own image, so deities can be modified.

Much of the Christian Diominionist movement and its emergence among the DC power brokers was discussed in Jeff Sharlets "The Family" and Wayne Madsens " Christian Mafia".
Well worth a review .

by billionaires.

I love this Pope! With that type of teaching and moral compass, there is a slight, remote possibility I would be open to re-examining my aversion to organized religion. I'm an ex-Catholic!

but, at the same time, I don't throw out the baby
with the bathwater.

There are good aspects to every religion, particularly
the mysticism and the message of love and inclusion.

I'm Catholic to the core, but only as far as the mysticism,
love, and inclusion part... iow, the message of Christ.

I also like the mystical aspects of all the other religions.

This Pope is speaking prophetically and using that bully pulpit to speak truth to power. While I realize the Catholic Church has many, many problems, Leo is using this prophetic voice as it should have been used for decades. Finally, we have a religious voice speaking about wealth imbalance and the evils of the military industrial complex.

Great language and messaging.

I love this Pope.

We need people of power to speak the truth
against these horrors being inflicted upon innocent people everywhere!
Trump is being foolish, as usual, to lash out at the pope for simply doing his job and administering to his followers.
He simply can’t stand anyone getting more attention than him.

...my money is on Leo.

...is they are tyrants

They pervert the law to their liking

You are a terrorist or a target if you barely disagree with them.

How do we rid us of this scum in a collectively acceptable way minimizing our own self-destruction?

It isn't necessary to read between the lines or listen to insightful analysis. It doesn't really matter whether you are religious or what religion you follow or what country you are from or what ideology you prefer.

This is pretty basic. A Cocker Spaniel could figure this out.

He seems to understand that we humans (himself included) are imperfect beings living in an imperfect world.

Well said.

Or a feud or anything other than a psychotic asshole whining like a baby because he doesn't like what the Pope says.

Piggy is pathologically insecure and insane and steals and destroys everything. I'd like to see someone report that.

Yep, that's Trump all right.

Mea culpa, not.

The rich always take advantage of the poor.

Always. It is nothing new.

It is the complacency (and delusion, let's not sugarcoat this) of enough of the masses to allow him and his ilk the chance to act like leeches that created this mess.

Maybe we need to address that issue?

(Like that would ever happen.)