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Within just a few hours of white smoke rising out of the Vatican, MAGA is already fuming over the new pope. MAGA is in full meltdown mode over the new pope’s tweets.

The Church in the U.S., as in much of Europe, is shrinking. In exiting the Church, liberals and radicals and the just plain disgusted have left in their wake a right-wing laity and priesthood arrayed against liberalism’s embrace of the marginalized.

As the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Francis unified people of different generations. He encouraged genuine love for humans—”Todo, todo, todo.” He spoke out against war, militarism, and the ravages of climate change.

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"Will the millions who will mourn his death these coming days respect this wish of his? Will they care for Gazans and Palestinians the way he did?"

"Pope Francis spoke plainly and with clarity about the climate crisis," said one environmental advocate.

Today, while the Trump administration continues to unveil new attacks on what the Bible calls, “the least of these,” it’s important to remember the prophetic tradition of faith leaders of the past as well as the heroic moral organizing happening now.

According to pro-Israel groups it is unacceptable to refer to what Israel is doing in Gaza as “genocide” or “terrorism,” as if there were better terms to use to describe: the indiscriminate bombing of heavily populated areas.

Reaching higher ground vs “getting back” to a normal that never was