Posted on Oct 17, 2025

This Five-Word Statement By The Pope Has Conservatives Wanting To Create Their Own Church

I actually was familiar with your game, Pope Leo XIV, but love to see it regardless!

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His response was simple: the church, more specifically, American bishops, must come together to create a "stronger, more unified voice" in support of immigrants.

In a new video, Pope Leo says American bishops need a “stronger, more unified voice” to defend migrants against Trump's deportation raids.

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This Five-Word Statement By The Pope Has Conservatives Wanting To Create Their Own Church

People have been talking about the pope a lot lately.

Mostly because of what he's said about immigration and people who claim to be "pro-life." Oh, and also because of this suuuper American thing he said about the Cubs (aka, making fun of the team for losing).

Now, people are talking about this video that's been circulating on Twitter.

In the video, the pope addresses his support for immigrants with cardinals, the senior members of the Catholic Church, after being shown a video by the Hope Border Institute about the anxiety many immigrants are experiencing amid ICE raids across the US.

His response was simple: the church, more specifically, American bishops, must come together to create a "stronger, more unified voice" in support of immigrants.

"The church cannot be silent," he said.

Some people are on board with Pope Leo's statement: "He's just getting started, a great man of faith. He knows exactly what is going on in the world right now. This rise of authoritarianism is anti-Christian and dangerous."

Others? Not so much. One person tweeted: "The Pope needs a stronger more unified voice on the persecution and murder of Christians worldwide instead of playing sound bites and snapshots."

One person even called for "based Catholics" to leave the church all together. He said: "It's time for based Catholics to maybe start their own church, because this one is dead. I hear there's a guy from the 1500s who wrote a pretty solid playbook for that type of thing."

It seems like the "guy from the 1500s" he's referring to is King Henry VIII. And the "pretty solid playbook" is the 1539 Great Bible.

King Henry VIII left the Catholic church because Pope Clement VII wouldn't let him divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. He broke away from Catholicism and became the head of the Church of England.

Thoughts?