Since the criticism of the US Vice President to condemn the death penalty, Pope Leo has shown little hesitation in dealing with thorny political issues on social media – strengthening his reputation as the first “extremely online” Pope.
When Vice President JD recently suggested that Christians prefer love in a particular order – starting with the family, then the neighbors, the community, and finally the fellow citizens – one especially prominent Christian was quickly disagreed.
Robert Prestost, now recognized worldwide as Pope Leo, responded by theological humility of X, formerly known as Twitter, challenged the hierarchy of compassion presented by the vice president.
“JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to include our love for others,” he wrote and recalculated the opening opinion and invited dozens of thousands of likes and a lot of barbed comments.
In 2012, Pope Benedict was the first to tweet under the handle @pontifex, but Pope Leo is undoubtedly the first to accept St. Peter’s chairman with a long history of social media.
He has published more than 400 times since his account X has been created and followed a number of problems with hot buttons: racism, sexual abuse of spiritual, Covid-19, police murder George Floyd and Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Perhaps it is not a surprise for an American who spent decades in Peru and took over his citizenship, immigration is a theme close to his heart.
The new Pope significantly intensified the criticism of US President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and repossed an article from 2017, which he called refugee bans “dark lesson of American history” and abandoned “US values”.
He repeatedly took Vance to the task and questioned the Vice President, whose religious views show all the zeal of the recent transfer to Catholicism.
From his extensive online comments, interviews and video blogs, it is clear that retweets are almost always an accompaniment.
In 2020, days after African American Floyd was suffocated to death under the knee of the police, he begged the fellow citizens of the clergy to speak.
“We must hear more from the Church leaders, reject racism and seek justice,” he said.
He also demanded more of the Church’s action in the Outing of the members of the clergy who sexually abused children.
“If you are a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, give it out,” La Republica told Peruvian paper this month.
“We refuse to cover and secrecy; this causes a lot of damage. We have to help people who have suffered because of the offense.”
In 2014, in 2014, he wrote that “time to end the death penalty” and repeated this point over the years in interviews, masses and public notes.
“We must always be PRO-LIFE,” he said once he compiled the Peruvian journalists in his smooth and modestly highlighted Spanish.
Yet they are also not afraid to publish a joke, including the suggestion that while many people are intelligent, most of them are asymptomatic.
Like many of us, it seemed that the pace of his contributions on social media was increasing during pandemic locking.
It is not clear whether it will expand the chat on the social media from the inside of the Apostolic Palace.
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