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Does anybody have any good article links on the new pope, Robert Prevost? I assume he's total right-wing dog shit garbage.
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I hate the fucking American media! I found an article but it was a super-lazy garbage job by the reporter. At the very, very end there was this tripe.
"Progressive" is a word that hardly has any meaning in the US. And that's quintuplely true for somebody like the pope. So - he's not in favor of death camps for the homeless - I guess.
he publicly rejected Vance's defense of Ordo Amoris -- that's something. but doesn't appear that he's a liberation theologian or anything.
and as @funkystuff implies, taking the name leo suggests probably a renewed articulation of Catholic social thinking.
bro the world will be a nuclear wasteland before there's a liberation theology pope.
As a filthy pagan, what does this mean?
Vance argued that an old theological doctrine from St Thomas Acquinas meant that Christian love is hierarchical, where one must first love their family, their community, then the rest of humanity.
Provost called him out for completely distorting that doctrine. Provost showed that the implication of Ordo Amoris is not that one must love one's family/community over others, but instead it's just explaining the nature of that love.
To put it in Marxist terms, it's like if a patsoc said that Starbucks baristas are nonproductive labor and don't deserve to benefit from socialism, then Claudia de la Cruz explained how Marx never said one kind of labor is more important than another.