Up to the moment I started writing down my thoughts (it is now Thursday, April 16), you could not click on a Catholic or secular news outlet without being bombarded with something pertaining to the Trump vs. Leo XIV debacle, the Trump “Jesus” Truth Social post, or the consequential fallout from these two matters.>Even here in South Africa, essentially a Protestant/pagan country, it occupied a fair amount of news space. And of course, we had to be treated to the heterodox Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), under the leadership of “Cardinal” Stephen Brislin, yapping on like the good little liberal socialist lapdogs that they are. I wish they would make such a racket every time Prevost betrays the Catholic faith, but that would imply courage and a backbone.>Liberal Catholic outlets such as Where Peter Is, Religion Digital, and National Catholic Reporter were frothing at the mouth with delight, as this was, after all, a two-birds-with-one-stone moment. Not only could they dump on any Catholic who does not worship Karl Marx, but they could also garner sympathy for Synodal Church leader Leo XIV and his program of ushering in the One World Religion.

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