Pope Titanic Blesses the Iceberg, Puts Trad Media Into Perfect Hibernation
Pope Titanic Blesses the Iceberg, Puts Trad Media Into Perfect Hibernation
Climate Rituals, Cupich’s Durbin Award, and Conservative Excuses in a 24-Hour Papal Trainwreck
The last 24 hours gave us the most surreal sequence yet in Leo XIV’s short reign. In the span of a single day, he declared that being pro-life “means more than just opposing abortion,” condemned Trump’s migrant policy as “inhumane,” sneered at Pete Hegseth as a “warmonger,” named climate change “the defining moral issue of our time,” defended Cardinal Cupich honoring pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin and then capped it all off by blessing a block of ice at Castel Gandolfo.
The images are unforgettable: Leo, dressed in white, solemnly resting his hand on a slab of ice under a digital giraffe, while NGO activists recited climate mantras.
Catholic Sat’s caption blandly called it “The Blessing of the Waters,” but to outside observers it looked like a pagan rite.
Matt Walsh called it “horrific” and “pagan Earth …