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Excitement successful Rome aft caller pope elected
For the archetypal clip successful history, an American was chosen to pb the Catholic Church, arsenic cardinals connected Thursday selected Pope Leo XIV — oregon Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago autochthonal — as the caller pontiff.
The astonishment determination comes astatine a clip of governmental hostility successful the United States. Hints arsenic to what postures Pope Leo XIV mightiness instrumentality connected arguable issues whitethorn travel from his enactment on societal media implicit the past respective years.
As a cardinal, Prevost shared posts connected X astir governmental issues for years, including disapproval of the Trump administration's stances connected immigration.
President Trump connected Thursday congratulated Leo, penning connected societal media that it was "a Great Honor for our Country" and adding that "I look guardant to meeting" him.
New pope shared disapproval of JD Vance — and Trump's migration policies
In February, the now-pope shared a National Catholic Reporter article that criticized Vice President JD Vance's effect to a question connected immigration. Vance is Catholic person who met with Pope Francis past month, conscionable 1 time earlier Francis' death.
In an interview, Vance had said Christian teachings advocator for prioritizing love, archetypal for family, past neighbors, community, chap citizens, and lastly, the world.
Prevost quoted the article's headline: "JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't inquire america to fertile our emotion for others."
His most caller repost, successful April, shared commentary from a Catholic writer connected Mr. Trump's meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. The station called the deportation of Maryland nonmigratory Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador "illicit" and asked: "Do you not spot the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How tin you enactment quiet?"
The national authorities has acknowledged that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported and detained successful a Salvadoran prison, but the White House has not returned him to the U.S., contempt a decision from the Supreme Court which called for it to facilitate his return.
Prevost shared statements for years advocating for stronger enactment for migrants. Many of his posts align with the positions of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Francis, who criticized the Trump administration's views connected immigration.
In 2018, helium reposted Cardinal Blase Cupich's disapproval of the Trump administration's family separation policy during Mr. Trump's archetypal term.
In 2017, helium reposted a California Catholic Conference statement opposing the administration's stance connected the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals migration policy, oregon DACA, which allows immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally arsenic minors to unrecorded and enactment here.
In 2015, erstwhile Mr. Trump was inactive a Republican superior candidate, helium reposted an nonfiction by Cardinal Timothy Dolan titled, "Why Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric is truthful problematic."
Leo has besides posted connected weapon power and abortion
Following the 2017 wide shooting successful Las Vegas which killed 58 people, Prevost reposted a connection from Cupich calling for "increased entree to intelligence wellness attraction and stronger, sensible weapon power laws."
He besides shared a connection from Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut criticizing governmental inaction connected weapon information that work successful part, "Your cowardice to enactment cannot beryllium whitewashed by thoughts and prayers."
He has besides shared statements criticizing abortion. Following the 2016 U.S. statesmanlike election, helium reposted an article from the Catholic News Agency headlined: "Clinton ignored pro-lifers astatine her ain peril, Democrats say."
That December, helium besides shared an article from a Peruvian paper that criticized "gender ideology." The now-pope served arsenic a bishop successful Peru for respective years and was a Peruvian citizen.
According to the LGBTQ media advocacy radical GLAAD, "gender ideology is not a word transgender radical usage to picture themselves, it is an inaccurate word deployed by opponents to undermine and dehumanize transgender and nonbinary people."
Pope Leo's voting records
Meanwhile, according to voting records shared with CBS News and information from the Illinois State Board of Elections, Prevost is registered to ballot successful the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Illinois. He has voted successful astatine slightest 9 wide elections, including successful 2024, but it was chartless which enactment helium voted for.
He has besides voted successful some Republican and Democratic primaries implicit the years. He voted successful the Republican primaries successful 2012, 2014 and 2016, including the statesmanlike primaries successful 2012 and 2016. He past voted successful a Democratic superior successful 2010. He had besides voted successful the party's statesmanlike superior successful 2008.
Pope's views connected societal media
In a 2023 interrogation with Vatican News, the now-pope was asked astir the narration betwixt bishops and societal media.
"Social media tin beryllium an important instrumentality to pass the Gospel connection reaching millions of people. We indispensable hole ourselves to usage societal media well," helium said. "I americium acrophobic that sometimes this mentation has been lacking."
"At the aforesaid time, the satellite today, which is perpetually changing, presents situations wherever we truly person to deliberation respective times earlier speaking oregon earlier penning a connection connected Twitter, successful bid to reply oregon adjacent conscionable to inquire questions successful a nationalist form, successful afloat presumption of everyone. Sometimes determination is simply a hazard of fuelling divisions and controversy," helium continued.
"There is simply a large work to usage societal networks, communication, correctly, due to the fact that it is an opportunity, but it is besides a risk. And it tin bash harm to the communion of the Church. That is wherefore 1 indispensable beryllium precise prudent successful the usage of these means."
Aaron Navarro contributed to this report.
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