New Pope Has Strong Political Opinions That Will Shake Both Parties
The voting history of the man who is the first American pope in history, Cardinal Robert Prevost, is sending shockwaves.
The man who has taken the name Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago of Italian and French descent and is a registered Republican voter, the Daily Mail reported. But his voting registration has not translated to support for President Donald Trump, judging by some of his posts on X.
The last post on his X account is from April 14 and appears to be at odds with the deportation of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador by the Trump administration.
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” the post said.
In 2014, he shared another post that referred to Jesus as a migrant.
Another post he shared was a story titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
In the piece there is a quote from an interview the vice president had on Fox News in January where he said “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that.”
In January 2017, he shared a message from Jesuit priest James Martin, who said: “We’re banning all Syrian refugees? The men, women, and children who most need help? What an immoral nation we are becoming. Jesus weeps.”
Later that same year, he retweeted a call for more gun regulations by Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy, who said, “To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers. None of this ends unless we do something to stop it.”
But the new pope has plenty of opinions that liberals will not be thrilled with.
In 2012, in an address to Bishops, he spoke about the media’s role in promoting LGBTQ lifestyles “that are at odds with the Gospel.”
“At least in the contemporary western world, if not throughout the entire world, the human imagination concerning both religious faith and ethics is largely shaped by mass media, especially by television and cinema. Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” he said.
When he was a bishop in Peru, he also opposed the government’s initiative to promote gender ideology in schools, The New York Post reported.
“The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist,” he said.
In 2017, he retweeted an article from the Catholic News Agency in which there was a quote from New York Archbishop Timothy, Cardinal Dolan, where he condemned abortion at a mass prior to the March for Life rally in Washington, DC.
The cardinal implored Catholics to “reclaim the belief that the mother’s womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby is safe, secure, nurtured and protected.”
President Trump celebrated the news that the first American pope had been named in a post on his Truth Social account.
“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” he said.
The news was also celebrated by Vice President JD Vance, who said, “Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election!”
