Newly elected American Pope Leo XIV is apparently an open-borders leftist who thinks illegal alien MS-13 terrorist Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported and that Vice President J.D. Vance’s take on the ordo amoris is incorrect.
For the first time today, the conclave of cardinals elected an American pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, whose X feed reveals where his politics are.
Prevost has retweeted pro-Garcia propaganda, and more than once attacked Vance, citing two leftist Catholic publications. He also fell for the George Floyd Hoax.
The new pontiff is 69 years old. Conservative Catholics might be in for a long, infuriating ride if he lives another 20 years. Then again, some traditionalist Catholics suggest that Pope Leo might not be all bad.
Bad Signs
While media reports note that at the 14th Pope Leo is an American, that doesn’t quite tell his whole story.
“Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the United States, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized,” The Washington Post reported:
The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave — falling so in love with the country that he became a naturalized citizen. His commitment there echoes the legacy of Pope Francis, an Argentine who became the Catholic Church’s first leader from South America.
“He’s right out of Francis’s playbook,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on U.S. Catholics. “He ticks off all the boxes of a future pope: a pastoral heart, managerial experience and vision.”
Translation: He’s a heterodox pope who will not focus on the crisis facing the church — not enough priests and religious, and the millions of Catholics who oppose basic Church teaching on such matters as abortion, contraception, and, importantly, the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Soon after the Peruvian citizen was elected, X exploded with Prevost’s far-left posts.
Prevost on Illegal Immigration
The End Wokeness feed helpfully curated some of the most concerning of Prevost’s public sentiments.
Prevost twice reposted Catholic journalist Rocco Palmo on illegal immigration.
“Saying Trump’s ‘bad hombres’ line fuels ‘racism and nativism,’” Palmo wrote. Prevost apparently thinks Garcia should stay in the country, despite the mountain of evidence that shows he is an MS-13 gang member, illegal-alien smuggler, and out-of-control wife beater. He reposted Palmo’s false claim that Garcia’s deportation was “illicit.” As of this writing, it’s the top item on his X feed.
On J.D. Vance’s Ordo Amoris
“JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others,” he wrote over a link to an article in the leftist National Catholic Reporter about the vice president’s comments on the ordo amoris, or the order of love.
He also linked to an article in the leftist Jesuit publication America about the late Pope Francis’ comments on the matter.
Vance had cited traditional Catholic teaching on a person’s priorities in loving others.
“There’s this old school — and I think it’s a very Christian concept by the way — that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,” Vance rightly said:
A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders.
In fact, as Catholic philosopher Edward Feser wrote on X, citing St. Thomas Aquinas, who quoted Augustine, Vance was right.
Oddly, Pope Leo XIV was head of the Augustinian Order of priests.
On George Floyd
He also reposted misleading sentiments about George Floyd from Fort Worth, Texas, Bishop Michael Olson. Both men, apparently, were unaware that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose, not because of “racism.”
“I join my voice and prayers to those of my brother bishops that we might work hard to end racism in our hearts and in society,” Olson wrote. “May God give comfort to the family of #GeorgeFloyd in this time of anguish.”
The family’s “anguish” likely didn’t last too long. The Floyds collected $27 million from taxpayers thanks to the false charge that police officer Derek Chauvin murdered the violent criminal.
Another repost was from far-left Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.
Reaction
Still, some traditional Catholics — so angry at Pope Francis for attacking them as “mentally unbalanced” because they love the traditional Latin Mass — believe Pope Leo might not be as bad as expected.
Wrote Michael Matt, editor of the traditionalist The Remnant:
Cardinal Prevost. God help us all.
On the other hand: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been described as a balanced figure in the current debate about the future of the Church, particularly regarding the Latin Mass. He is seen as a potential bridge between Pope Francis’s inclusive agenda and more conservative elements within the Church.
While he has not explicitly taken a stance on the Latin Mass, his supporters highlight his ability to listen and synthesize diverse perspectives, suggesting he might find a way to reconcile different viewpoints on the matter.
While traditionalist theologian Peter Kwasniewski said then-Cardinal Prevost’s remarks about Vance were “not a good look,” he didn’t believe the conclave would select an out-and-out “progressive” with “no capacity to reconcile factions.”
