The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV spoke out against Russia’s continued war against Ukraine in an interview on May 9.
Speaking with Peruvian news outlet Semanario Expresión, Pope Leo condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, characterizing it as a "a true invasion, imperialist in nature, where Russia seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power.”
Pope Leo was appointed just earlier this week on May 8, following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at the age of 88. On May 7, cardinals officially opened the historic conclave in the Vatican to choose the next head of the Catholic Church.
By clearing naming Russia’s imperialist aspirations in Ukraine, the new pope’s comments come as a departure from his predecessor’s position on the war.
depends. If they are nevertheless happy with his social justice policies, they’re tankies, if they also hate his social policies anyway, they’re just closeted/crypto fascists.
I don’t think anyone slightly left will ever be happy with a Pope’s social policies because they are inevitably decades or centuries late to adjust to society. Francis started to open on welcoming homosexuals in the church, but he still said it’s a sin because any sex outside of mariage is a sin, and gay mariage is not allowed by the church.
Maybe Leo will make some new timid move like “maybe it’s not a sin after all, gotta think about it” but nothing revolutionary will happen.
Progressists as defined on Lemmy will never be elected pope.
If any progressive has an opinion on the Catholic Church, it’s most likely that is that it should be wholly disbanded, its assets donated to the needy, its relics donated to museums, and its clergy investigated and arrested for crimes against children.
Not much love between the two groups, so imagining some sort of alignment of goals at any point just feels like a waste.
Yeah, the church will always be a conservative institution, they oppose anything revolutionary. So on a good day they’ll take a “shame on you greedy heartless fuckers” approach to politicians and billionaires, but never the Robin Hood approach. But usually on the local level, you’ll just get your neighbourhood reactionary priest being a dick.