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Why was JD Vance meeting with Pope Francis anyway? [Serious] (lemm.ee)
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I know the fun answers (and choose to believe them a little), but what was the real (cover) story?

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the US there's a strain of Catholicism that is far-right and hyperpolitical, they hate the Pope and love Trump. Vance is a fairly recent convert who got into it thanks to Thiel.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isn’t Thiel gay?

What’s with these weirdos?

I don’t see the appeal of this Opus Dei shit, at all.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

They both love young blood