They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
On 5/8/2025 5:58 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
When I was a kid, visiting my grandparents we'd go to Leo's to buy an
ice cream cone. If Pope Leo replaces communion with ice cream cones I
may go to church again.
On 2025-05-08 4:51 p.m., Bruce wrote:
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard BlaisdellOh Yeah! Dressing up in Medieval costumes and singing Medieval chants.
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
On 2025-05-08, Bruce <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
I don't think that Pius XII was. Ask Ed. "Real Catholics" enjoy the
services in Latin. At least they did when I was a kid.
I knew a man once, who rejected Catholic Reform. He and his wife
attended the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to avoid having to hear
services in English. I blame Pope John and the Second Vatican Council.
Ed, take it from here!
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
On 2025-05-08, Bruce <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
I don't think that Pius XII was. Ask Ed. "Real Catholics" enjoy the
services in Latin. At least they did when I was a kid.
I knew a man once, who rejected Catholic Reform. He and his wife
attended the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to avoid having to hear
services in English. I blame Pope John and the Second Vatican Council.
Ed, take it from here!
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
On Thu, 8 May 2025 21:58:10 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
Congrats? My wife was excited about the new Pope being American. "You're
not Catholic" said I.
"I was raised a Catholic!" This was the first time I've seen her excited >about religion. Now I really am ascared.
The last Pope Leo was VERY anti - socialism (like YOU!), and vehemently
so... wonder if the new one will follow suit...???
Pope Leo XIII was prescient in a manner few human beings have ever been;
he sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another
... AND he was condemning socialism LONG before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution...!!!
He wrote in 1881: "The century’s most blatant force of satanic
utopianism is communism."...
The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism (from NATIONAL
REVIEW); free to read at this link, excerpts below:
https://archive.ph/24yHo
The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism
By Dominic Pino - May 9, 2025 - NATIONAL REVIEW
"The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was
in office from 1878 to 1903...
Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891
encyclical “on capital and labor” that is often described as charting a third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching...
This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum
is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property
are essential to human flourishing...
And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism
ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to
end...
Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to
God’s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of God’s design for mankind...
He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God’s authority...
He used words like “evil,” “wicked,” “plague,” “monstrous,” and
“hideous” to describe socialism, words he never used to reference
markets or private property...
On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God’s natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined,
by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against socialism...
If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII’s legacy in choosing his regnal
name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the
evils of socialism..."
On Fri, 9 May 2025 14:45:50 +0000, gm wrote:
The last Pope Leo was VERY anti - socialism (like YOU!), and vehemently
so... wonder if the new one will follow suit...???
Pope Leo XIII was prescient in a manner few human beings have ever been;
he sees Christianity and socialism as necessarily opposed to one another
... AND he was condemning socialism LONG before the 1917 Bolshevik
Revolution...!!!
He wrote in 1881: "The century’s most blatant force of satanic
utopianism is communism."...
The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism (from NATIONAL
REVIEW); free to read at this link, excerpts below:
https://archive.ph/24yHo
The Last Pope Leo Had Some Great Takes on Socialism
By Dominic Pino - May 9, 2025 - NATIONAL REVIEW
"The new pope is taking the regnal name Leo XIV. The last Pope Leo was
in office from 1878 to 1903...
Perhaps his most famous written work is Rerum novarum, an 1891
encyclical “on capital and labor” that is often described as charting a >> third way between capitalism and socialism for Catholic teaching...
This description is incomplete, if not entirely wrong, as Rerum novarum
is very clear that socialism is evil, and markets and private property
are essential to human flourishing...
And Leo XIII composed some of the strongest denunciations of socialism
ever written. It was a major theme of his papacy from beginning to
end...
Leo XIII believed socialism was based on the sin of envy, contrary to
God’s justice, bad for the poor, destructive of the family and of
communities, and detrimental to the incentives to work, which is part of
God’s design for mankind...
He said socialists pervert Scripture and reject God’s authority...
He used words like “evil,” “wicked,” “plague,” “monstrous,” and
“hideous” to describe socialism, words he never used to reference
markets or private property...
On the contrary, he said private property is a bedrock part of God’s
natural order for the world, and it must be protected, not undermined,
by the state, and that true Christian teaching is a defense against
socialism...
If Leo XIV was inspired by Leo XIII’s legacy in choosing his regnal
name, it would be great to see a resurgence in Catholic teaching on the
evils of socialism..."
I boldly predict that Leo XIV will not fit well into your views of the
new world order and the treatment of other human beings and immigrants. That's okay, you'll always have Trump - at least for a while.
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
I boldly predict that Leo XIV will not fit
well into your views of the new world order
and the treatment of other human beings and immigrants.
On 2025-05-09, dsi1 wrote:
I boldly predict that Leo XIV will not fit
well into your views of the new world order
and the treatment of other human beings and immigrants.
I agree. Electing a USA American as Pope means that
if Leo disgraces the Trump, Americans cannot say:
"Just a foreigner's opinion; ignore."
It is an object lesson of Italian Machiavellian plotting.
I prefer to think in terms of probabalistic predictions.
Encapsulating Trump policy into his own word-view and
integrating towards the future, we will arrive soon
at a singularity. His own perception of his own power
is growing exponentially. Soon it will reach black hole
'Godhood' dimensions where it starts to resonate with
non-deterministic functions actually imposed by the gods,
or just by quantum uncertainty if gods do not exist.
From the non-Trump point of view, it will simply appear
that your fearless leader will have a sharp departure
from reality.
And can a USA American please explain what's up with
the new tariffs on girl dolls and boy toys?
To be gender neutral, I should say non-sex-toy dolls.
I agree. Electing a USA American as Pope means that
if Leo disgraces the Trump, Americans cannot say:
"Just a foreigner's opinion; ignore."
It is an object lesson of Italian Machiavellian plotting.
I prefer to think in terms of probabalistic predictions.
Encapsulating Trump policy into his own word-view and
integrating towards the future, we will arrive soon
at a singularity. His own perception of his own power
is growing exponentially. Soon it will reach black hole
'Godhood' dimensions where it starts to resonate with
non-deterministic functions actually imposed by the gods,
or just by quantum uncertainty if gods do not exist.
From the non-Trump point of view, it will simply appear
that your fearless leader will have a sharp departure
from reality.
And can a USA American please explain what's up with
the new tariffs on girl dolls and boy toys?
To be gender neutral, I should say non-sex-toy dolls.
BOO...!!!
On Fri, 9 May 2025 20:19:04 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:
I agree. Electing a USA American as Pope means that
if Leo disgraces the Trump, Americans cannot say:
"Just a foreigner's opinion; ignore."
It is an object lesson of Italian Machiavellian plotting.
I prefer to think in terms of probabalistic predictions.
Encapsulating Trump policy into his own word-view and
integrating towards the future, we will arrive soon
at a singularity. His own perception of his own power
is growing exponentially. Soon it will reach black hole
'Godhood' dimensions where it starts to resonate with
non-deterministic functions actually imposed by the gods,
or just by quantum uncertainty if gods do not exist.
From the non-Trump point of view, it will simply appear
that your fearless leader will have a sharp departure
from reality.
And can a USA American please explain what's up with
the new tariffs on girl dolls and boy toys?
To be gender neutral, I should say non-sex-toy dolls.
There's no mystery involved. Our fearless leader is bat-shit insane.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F6X-xCXJYCU
On 5/9/2025 12:24 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
On 2025-05-08, Bruce <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
I don't think that Pius XII was. Ask Ed. "Real Catholics" enjoy the
services in Latin. At least they did when I was a kid.
I knew a man once, who rejected Catholic Reform. He and his wife
attended the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to avoid having to hear
services in English. I blame Pope John and the Second Vatican Council.
Ed, take it from here!
The problem was how it was taught, or more accurate, how it was not
taught. The mass in latin is more eloquent, but, going to Catholic
school were were never told what the words meant and what was going on
up there on the alter. Perhaps other schools were better.
I may have had a better attitude about if is someone told me what Et cum spiritu tuo meant early on.
Dominus vobiscum
On 2025-05-09 8:29 a.m., Ed P wrote:
The problem was how it was taught, or more accurate, how it was not
taught. The mass in latin is more eloquent, but, going to Catholic
school were were never told what the words meant and what was going on
up there on the alter. Perhaps other schools were better.
I may have had a better attitude about if is someone told me what Et cum
spiritu tuo meant early on.
Dominus vobiscum
I don't know what exactly what the RC teaches their membership about >Protestantism and it's conflicts with Catholicism, but the Protest >Reformation was a movement started by Catholics who were fed up with the >church enriching itself by the sale of a load of crap by the church. The >bible was written in a language the people didn't understand and in
books they could not afford. They didn't know that stuff they were
expected to buy into and to pay for had no basis in the bible. Goodness
knows how many rich old people paid fortunes for indulgences that would
get then into heaven.
From the non-Trump point of view, it will simply appear
that your fearless leader will have a sharp departure
from reality.
And can a USA American please explain what's up with
the new tariffs on girl dolls and boy toys?
On Fri, 9 May 2025 20:19:04 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:
I agree. Electing a USA American as Pope means that
if Leo disgraces the Trump, Americans cannot say:
"Just a foreigner's opinion; ignore."
It is an object lesson of Italian Machiavellian plotting.
I prefer to think in terms of probabalistic predictions.
Encapsulating Trump policy into his own word-view and
integrating towards the future, we will arrive soon
at a singularity. His own perception of his own power
is growing exponentially. Soon it will reach black hole
'Godhood' dimensions where it starts to resonate with
non-deterministic functions actually imposed by the gods,
or just by quantum uncertainty if gods do not exist.
From the non-Trump point of view, it will simply appear
that your fearless leader will have a sharp departure
from reality.
And can a USA American please explain what's up with
the new tariffs on girl dolls and boy toys?
To be gender neutral, I should say non-sex-toy dolls.
There's no mystery involved. Our fearless leader is bat-shit insane.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F6X-xCXJYCU
On 2025-05-09 8:29 a.m., Ed P wrote:
On 5/9/2025 12:24 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
On 2025-05-08, Bruce <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
But the pope (any pope) is a very modern and progressive man compared
to you.
I don't think that Pius XII was. Ask Ed. "Real Catholics" enjoy the
services in Latin. At least they did when I was a kid.
I knew a man once, who rejected Catholic Reform. He and his wife
attended the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to avoid having to hear
services in English. I blame Pope John and the Second Vatican Council.
Ed, take it from here!
The problem was how it was taught, or more accurate, how it was not
taught. The mass in latin is more eloquent, but, going to Catholic
school were were never told what the words meant and what was going on
up there on the alter. Perhaps other schools were better.
I may have had a better attitude about if is someone told me what Et
cum spiritu tuo meant early on.
Dominus vobiscum
I don't know what exactly what the RC teaches their membership about Protestantism and it's conflicts with Catholicism, but the Protest Reformation was a movement started by Catholics who were fed up with the church enriching itself by the sale of a load of crap by the church. The bible was written in a language the people didn't understand and in
books they could not afford. They didn't know that stuff they were
expected to buy into and to pay for had no basis in the bible. Goodness
knows how many rich old people paid fortunes for indulgences that would
get then into heaven.
Your minister of Defense, Hogstew or something, also is a complete
idiot and an amateur to boot.
On Fri, 9 May 2025 21:38:01 +0000, Bruce wrote:
Your minister of Defense, Hogstew or something, also is a complete
idiot and an amateur to boot.
Oddly enough, we saw our doctor recently. He comes into the room and
said "did you see what your president did today?" That was shocking with
the added enhancement of being puzzling. "He's not our president!" We
said defensively.
In the end, we agreed that the Trump presidency is the defining moment
that would propel China into the forefront of the world stage just as
surely as the end of WWII brought America to its place in history.
Russia will continue to be a third rate country - hopefully, Putin
doesn't go senile and press the big red button down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtovFI8etOg
On Fri, 9 May 2025 21:38:01 +0000, Bruce wrote:
Your minister of Defense, Hogstew or something, also is a complete
idiot and an amateur to boot.
Oddly enough, we saw our doctor recently. He comes into the room and
said "did you see what your president did today?" That was shocking with
the added enhancement of being puzzling. "He's not our president!" We
said defensively.
In the end, we agreed that the Trump presidency is the defining moment
that would propel China into the forefront of the world stage just as
surely as the end of WWII brought America to its place in history.
Russia will continue to be a third rate country - hopefully, Putin
doesn't go senile and press the big red button down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtovFI8etOg
Does heaven exist? I have no idea. Evidence?
On 8 May 2025 21:58:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<[email protected]> wrote:
They just named the new Pope after *ME*! ;)
Pope Leonardo I, young:
https://ibb.co/pBK7tRgp
Pope Leonardo I, a bit older:
https://ibb.co/qM0GXrXk
The problem with China is that it's a genocidal dictatorship. They're backward in that way. Trump's starting to compete with them, though.
Did you read about the American embassy in Stockholm? I think they're
losing the plot.
"The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demand that
it adopt the Trump administration's anti-diversity policies, with
Stockholm's vice-mayor for planning calling the request "bizarre".
Several European nations and cities have slammed US efforts to force
its anti-DEI policies on the continent. " <https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250509-stockholm-refuses-bizarre-us-trump-request-to-reject-diversity-dei-policies>
On Sun, 11 May 2025 1:22:43 +0000, Bruce wrote:
The problem with China is that it's a genocidal dictatorship. They're
backward in that way. Trump's starting to compete with them, though.
Did you read about the American embassy in Stockholm? I think they're
losing the plot.
"The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demand that
it adopt the Trump administration's anti-diversity policies, with
Stockholm's vice-mayor for planning calling the request "bizarre".
Several European nations and cities have slammed US efforts to force
its anti-DEI policies on the continent. "
<https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250509-stockholm-refuses-bizarre-us-trump-request-to-reject-diversity-dei-policies>
As far as genocidal dictatorships goes, China is a pretty awesome place!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq9vXFGGbcg
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