Robert Francis Prevost, 69, Chicago-born, turns into 267th pope as Leo XIV.
He’s believed to share late Pope Francis’ views on surroundings, the migrants, and the poor.
This implies his views on sure subjects oppose these of President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance, particularly migrants.
Pope Leo XIV himself comes from a household of immigrants.
“I used to be born in america… However my grandparents had been all immigrants, French, Spanish… I used to be raised in a really Catholic household, each of my dad and mom had been very engaged within the parish,” he stated.
Though he was born within the US, the Vatican described him because the second pope from the Americas (Francis was from Argentina).
President Trump known as Leo’s election “such an honor for our nation” and wished the pope effectively in his new function.
Days earlier than Leo’s election — through the interval of mourning following Frances’ passing — Trump shared an AI generated picture of himself wearing a pope’s gown, an act that sparked important backlash from non secular and political figures.
The picture was later shared by The White Home official social media account.
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Trump captioned the submit on Reality Social, “I’d prefer to be pope. That may be my No. 1 selection.”
He added he didn’t even have choice. “I need to say, we now have a cardinal that occurs to be out of a spot known as New York who’s superb, so we’ll see what occurs,” referring to Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York.
Posting on his X profile as Cardinal Robert Prevost, Pope Leo criticized Vance for an interview he gave about Christianity on Fox Information.
“JD Vance is fallacious,” he stated. “Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
Discussing considerations over the Trump administration’s dealing with of immigration, Vance referenced a Christian tenet “that you simply love your loved ones and you then love your neighbor, and you then love your group, and you then love your fellow residents, after which after that, prioritize the remainder of the world.”
After receiving criticism on his views, Vance took to the social media to defend himself, writing, “Simply google ‘ordo amoris.’ Except for that, the concept there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates primary widespread sense.”
Ten days later, Pope Leo, as Cardinal Robert Prevost, shared one other piece from a Jesuit publication, titled, “Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration.”
Vance congratulated Pope Leo on his election. “I’m certain tens of millions of American Catholics and different Christians will pray for his profitable work main the Church. Might God bless him!”
The newest submit on X by Pope Leo was a reposted social media article that was important of the Trump administration’s deportation of a US resident, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to El Salvador. Garcia was despatched to the world’s worst jail resulting from an administration mistake, however he’s unable to return dwelling.
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