A lion, a guardian of the den where sometimes they bite and other times they sing. Pope Leo XIV a moderate or moderator is one often seen as the same. Can the church be saved from being shrunken like a shrinka-a-dink under fire? Can the church serve its community voluntarily without its anointing role as the money changers? It has to give back the authority to the members to serve those in need. The church has a role and taking up collections shall end. The domino effect will lead all the way to a lion and we’ll hear the roar. Then we’ll know what freedom feels like and that makes all the difference.
While I’m a long-lapsed Catholic and an atheist today, my formative years were steeped in the Church; not just its rituals, but its scriptures, its ethics, and yes, its contradictions. I studied theology all the way through college. Ironically, it was theology itself that opened the door to atheism for me. When you study the actual teachings of Christ, not the bureaucratic power structure wrapped in incense and patriarchy, you start to see the radical core that the Church hierarchy has spent centuries domesticating.
The Sermon on the Mount still forms the backbone of my personal ethics: blessed are the peacemakers, the poor, the merciful. Not the corporate executives in miters hoarding real estate and issuing culture war encyclicals. So yes, when a man rises from the American Catholic machine, which has done so much harm under the guise of “moral clarity,” I pay close attention. The risk of greater access and influence for the American far-right under a “moderate” American pope is not far-fetched.
This isn’t about hating Catholics. It’s about refusing to let institutions rewrite what goodness means. And that’s where I’ll always keep my torch lit.
Thanks for a great perspective on the new Pope.
A lion, a guardian of the den where sometimes they bite and other times they sing. Pope Leo XIV a moderate or moderator is one often seen as the same. Can the church be saved from being shrunken like a shrinka-a-dink under fire? Can the church serve its community voluntarily without its anointing role as the money changers? It has to give back the authority to the members to serve those in need. The church has a role and taking up collections shall end. The domino effect will lead all the way to a lion and we’ll hear the roar. Then we’ll know what freedom feels like and that makes all the difference.
This concerned me, I am not well versed in the Catholic culture. But I know that Catholic Church in America is hardly a force for good.
Not American Catholics but the institution itself. Someone born of one of the worst wings of the Catholic Church has in the world doesn’t bode well.
I fear that him being American gives the Regime unprecedented access that it hasn’t had before.
This was very interesting. Thank you.
While I’m a long-lapsed Catholic and an atheist today, my formative years were steeped in the Church; not just its rituals, but its scriptures, its ethics, and yes, its contradictions. I studied theology all the way through college. Ironically, it was theology itself that opened the door to atheism for me. When you study the actual teachings of Christ, not the bureaucratic power structure wrapped in incense and patriarchy, you start to see the radical core that the Church hierarchy has spent centuries domesticating.
The Sermon on the Mount still forms the backbone of my personal ethics: blessed are the peacemakers, the poor, the merciful. Not the corporate executives in miters hoarding real estate and issuing culture war encyclicals. So yes, when a man rises from the American Catholic machine, which has done so much harm under the guise of “moral clarity,” I pay close attention. The risk of greater access and influence for the American far-right under a “moderate” American pope is not far-fetched.
This isn’t about hating Catholics. It’s about refusing to let institutions rewrite what goodness means. And that’s where I’ll always keep my torch lit.
Solidarity. And thanks for reading.