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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   In article , atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   > On May 12, 2025 at 1:30:47 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"  wrote:   
      
   >> The Catholic hosts of ABC's "The View" made it clear on Friday that they   
   >> would have been much happier with a new Pope who was less . Catholic - and   
   >> said they were particularly concerned over his previous support for a   
   >> Biblical view of marriage.   
   >>   
   >> Just one day after the white smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel in the   
   >> Vatican - and the announcement that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost,   
   >> originally from Chicago, would become Pope Leo XIV - the cohosts gathered   
   >> around the table to discuss their concerns about what he might support as   
   >> pontiff.   
   >>   
   >> Sunny Hostin has always touted her "devout" Catholic faith, despite her own   
   >> support for social issues that are not embraced by the church, such as   
   >> abortion and LGBTQ+ issues, and she immediately voiced concerns that Pope   
   >> Leo XIV might take a Biblical view of marriage and the LGBTQ+ community.   
   >>   
   >> "I'm a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ+ community. In   
   >> 2012, he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented `the popular culture   
   >> fostered and sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the   
   >> gospel.' And that's a quote," she complained. "And then he cited the   
   >> homosexual lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same-sex   
   >> partners and their adopted children."   
   >>   
   >> Hostin then went on to praise the late Pope Francis for making "great   
   >> changes in terms of embracing the LGBTQ+ community," and said that it was   
   >> her hope that Pope Leo XIV would not "roll back" those changes.   
   >>   
   >> WATCH:   
   >>   
   >>	Purported "devout Catholic" Sunny Hostin fears Pope Leo XIV because   
   >>	of he believes marriage is between a man and a woman:   
   >>	"I'm a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ+ community.   
   >>	In 2012 he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented `the popular   
   >>	culture fostered and. pic.twitter.com/HirlDlUQyq   
   >>   
   >>	- Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 9, 2025   
   >>   
   >> Cohost Ana Navarro, who introduced herself as a "sinful Catholic," noted   
   >> that a lot of American politicians had changed their mind about same sex   
   >> marriage since 2012, when the address Hostin mentioned had taken place,   
   >> and voiced her hope that Pope Leo XIV had also changed his mind about the   
   >> conflict between the Catholic Church's doctrine and popular culture.   
   >>   
   >> "Maybe, you know, with the weight of the papacy and the idea that he just   
   >> said when he went out on the balcony that the church loves everyone and was   
   >> inclusive in his first message. So, until we see otherwise, I think we need   
   >> to pray and hope that he follows in Francis' footsteps in being inclusive,   
   >> forgiving, compassionate, welcoming, and speaking up for the marginalized,   
   >> speaking up for the poor, speaking up for the migrants, speaking up for the   
   >> targeted, speaking up for all those people that today feel alone."   
   >>   
   >> WATCH:   
   >>   
   >>        Sara Haines, who "grew up presbyterian" and has expressed very   
   >>        hateful anti-Catholic views on the show, tries to smear Leo with   
   >>        accusations she admits are unsupported:   
   >>        "The Conclave looked past allegations that he had - this pope had   
   >>        mishandled or failed to act on sexual abuse.   
   >>        pic.twitter.com/hLQA2Jl7oI   
   >>   
   >>        - Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 9, 2025   
   >>   
   >> Cohost Sara Haines, who was raised in the Presbyterian Church, echoed the   
   >> concerns raised by Hostin and Navarro, but then added her own worries over   
   >> reports that the Catholic Church's new leader had failed to properly handle   
   >> allegations of sexual abuse involving other priests in the past.   
   >>   
   >> "The Conclave looked past allegations that he had - this pope had   
   >> mishandled or failed to act on sexual abuse cases involving priests in   
   >> both Peru and the United States . so, to know that that could have been   
   >> looked past is difficult to reconcile for me," she said.   
   >   
   >Notice how all the people who are so upset about the Church's failures with   
   >regard to sex abuse of kids haven't said one word, let alone express any   
   >outrage or condemnation of how the leftist British government and the British   
   >police shamefully (and criminally) spent years looking the other way in the   
   >name of political correctness and diversity as Muslim males raped hundreds   
   >of young British girls.   
      
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