BREAKING: The U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching...

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51. I did not have "pick a fight with Catholics" on my bingo card

Republicans have spent the better part of the last four decades trying to emphasize, make inroads, and elevate the more right-wing bishops and Catholics and align them into the Evangelical ideological and political fold.

This shit can do a fair bit of damage to that prospect.

American Catholics aren't generally crazy loyal to popes in general - they just kind of do whatever at varying degrees of liberal or conservative based on culture, upbringing, and environment. But I guarantee a lot of people who are generally checked out with whatever the Vatican gets up to just swiveled their heads around to watch this one.

The vice-president telling the Pope not to engage in theology is wild.