Don't Fall for the Left's Fake News on Leo XIV: The Pope Turns Out to Be Surprisingly Conservative

Apparently, it turns out that — thanks, as usual, to "the left’s psyops" — the current pope has gotten a bad rap from conservatives. Over at Instapundit, Sarah Hoyt demonstrates this with a plethora of evidence showing that, contrary to Fake News, Leo XIV has been quite conservative. 

Keep in mind the man took the name Leo, our last strongly anti-communist pope before John Paul II and also that he has said this: “Communism has penetrated even Christian circles disguised as solidarity. It is our pastoral duty to expose it.” – Pope Leo XIV.

At According to Hoyt, Sarah has an even longer must-read article, We Need to Talk.

Imagine you’re a leftist in America, and you’ve miscalculated. Part of letting in Latins by the bucket full is that you knew — KNEW — all of them would vote for the left forever, and the more left the better. They also thought they had control of the Papacy by installing an old Argentinian leftist as Pope. Because the left absolutely believes Catholics will blindly do what the Pope tells them. (Frankly they also think Baptists and even Mormons — MORMONS! — will do so.)

Anyway, imagine their shock when Catholic immigrants (who by and large are actually against illegal immigration) were horrified by the left’s lurch into all gay, trans and sex sex sex all the time, not to mention insane feminist girl bossing, and … well, became more Catholic.

 … Was Axelrod’s visit to the Vatican part of the psyops? I can’t think of any other reason for that gutter-crawler to visit the Vatican. Did he actually have an audience with the Pope? I don’t know. The reporting on it was of that kind where it might be that. Or he might have seen the Pope’s third undersecretary. I don’t know. Either of them is possible. 

 … They’ve tried to scare Jews and Catholics. We were the low hanging fruit. I don’t know how they’re going after the other groups in the right, but I can promise you they are. There will be more of this.

To Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, conservative, and leftist readers alike, here is a suggestion: Read the whole thing.   

Again, the message is: Don't let leftists, Catholics or others, try to give you lessons about religion (whether it's claiming that Jesus was/is a socialist or saying “If you are against the Pope you can’t be Catholic”) when it all turns out to belong to the Left's usual double standard department, as PJ Media's Chris Queen put it last weekend.

The left loves to trot out the term “Christian nationalism” every time a conservative talks about his or her Christian faith. Yet progressive churches and black congregations in particular have long made a habit of platforming Democrats during Sunday services — including politicians like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who aren’t [even] Christians. 

(There was another recent [PJ Media?] article on AOC's visit to Martin Luther King's church that made the same points — demonizing religion when it concerns subjects like abortion, praising it when it supports, or seems to support, the Democrats' talking points — but I have spent an hour looking for it, and I just can't find it…)