Fr. Dowd in support of Pope Leo

by Jack , Monday, April 13, 2026, 14:51 (6 days ago) @ domer.mq

During the first Trump term, a Notre Dame CSC told a classmate of mine when he asked if Trump would be invited to be commencement speaker. The answer, paraphrasing, “If I have anything to say about it, and I do, he will never set foot on this campus.”

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Trump is Jesus - domer.mq, 2026-04-13, 05:26
- And Iran has posted their rebuttal - Jeff (BGS), 2026-04-15, 22:39
- Interestng New Republic article. - oviedoirish, 2026-04-14, 10:21
  - Thanks for sharing - Jeremy (WeIsND), 2026-04-14, 12:47
  - My first thought is I'm a big fan of Greg Sargent - BPH, 2026-04-14, 11:03
- Out of all the MAGA things I'm fucking sick of - KGB, 2026-04-14, 09:32
  - As usual, you nailed it. - cdawg, 2026-04-15, 10:36
    - Man, I wasn't even aware until you said that. - KGB, 2026-04-15, 12:18
      - Pretty sure that was Bones' message to Waddell - Jeremy (WeIsND), 2026-04-16, 11:03
        
        They need a second goalie who isn't Elvis. - KGB, 2026-04-16, 13:26
        
        Good point. The Caps &/or CBJ would have made the playoffs - cdawg, 2026-04-17, 08:54
    - Someone needed to say it - Jeremy (WeIsND), 2026-04-15, 11:15
- Then there's this - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2026-04-14, 07:58
  - Lt. Gov “Dan Patrick” (FKA Dannie Scott Goeb) on the case - atxND, 2026-04-14, 09:16
  - Ahh, the Heritage Foundation end game! - Joe I, 2026-04-14, 09:04
- Fr. Dowd in support of Pope Leo - Jack, 2026-04-13, 14:51
  - couldn’t mention Trump by name, though - Jay, 2026-04-13, 15:14
    - Right. - bobbywal, 2026-04-13, 21:10
    - This reeks of making perfect the enemy of the good - Savage, 2026-04-13, 16:10
      - They could provide SOME context, though? - MattG, 2026-04-13, 17:45
        
        Except everyone knows what is animating it - Dallasdomer, 2026-04-14, 05:58
        
        what would Hesburgh do? - Jay, 2026-04-14, 13:09
        
        Right. Sufficient isn't Leadership. - domer.mq, 2026-04-14, 16:39
        
        I don’t think social media is standing up to anything - Dallasdomer, 2026-04-14, 16:47
        
        Ok, well, it's a release on the ND website too... - domer.mq, 2026-04-14, 18:04
        
        Agreed, and I agree with Savage - Jack, 2026-04-14, 12:44
        
        Most people don't know why gas prices went up. - domer.mq, 2026-04-14, 09:30
        
        Those people would never read that statement in the first - Jack, 2026-04-14, 12:46
        
        gonna need the receipts on 'most' - KGB, 2026-04-14, 09:34
        
        I'll ammend to "Plenty." - domer.mq, 2026-04-14, 09:38
        
        Not everyone - KGB, 2026-04-14, 09:49
        
        Name the evil. - PMan, 2026-04-14, 08:57
        
        Do they? - MattG, 2026-04-14, 08:49
        
        Who's the audience here, though? - Jack, 2026-04-14, 12:55
        
        Audience is other clergy, then Trump. - MattG, 2026-04-14, 16:46
        
        There is no statement of support for Trump there - Jack, 2026-04-15, 13:16
      - look at Cardinal McElroy - Jay, 2026-04-13, 16:15
        
        Cue Chris Rock. - KGB, 2026-04-13, 17:28
- Now he's claiming it was supposed to be him as a doctor - HCE, 2026-04-13, 13:14
- I wonder how “Christian” MAGA will justify - Jack, 2026-04-13, 09:41
  - Randomly listened to something that reminds me of this - Mike (Max), 2026-04-13, 11:02
    - All of us are probably a mix of all three, - nedhead, 2026-04-13, 15:38
      - I agree -- it's an oversimplification of a human being. - Mike (Max), 2026-04-14, 08:17
        
        Have you read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - ReginaldVelJohnson, 2026-04-14, 12:54
        
        Yes, read it, and I agree to a point. - Mike (Max), 2026-04-14, 16:01
        
        To add to this, - nedhead, 2026-04-14, 23:54
        
        I thought of Kahneman - OGerry, 2026-04-14, 13:16
        
        Much of the answer to your question is due to bandwidth. - Joe I, 2026-04-14, 13:57
    - Those are good - bobbywal, 2026-04-13, 11:05
  - Of all the totally inexplicable aspects of this era of - BillyGoat, 2026-04-13, 09:50
    - Easier to comprehend when you consider "Christianity" - ReginaldVelJohnson, 2026-04-13, 12:13
      - This is exactly right. - KGB, 2026-04-13, 12:59
    - It’s instructive to remember - Jack, 2026-04-13, 10:03
    - The right has never been Christian. - Joe, 2026-04-13, 09:59
      - They're Christian nationalists, which is different - BPH, 2026-04-13, 10:36
  - Look how stirred up the libs got about it! QED. - IrishGuard, 2026-04-13, 09:49
- I think that picture broke TPG. Working on and off today. - NDinVA, 2026-04-13, 09:10
- What the actual fuck? Jesus had red hair? - Grantland, 2026-04-13, 07:14
  - Is it AI slop or is it one of that one guy's actual... - PMan, 2026-04-13, 08:11
    - Given the "jets" and the gorgon, I'm thinking AI. - domer.mq, 2026-04-13, 08:25
      - I thought those were the Avengers - Jay, 2026-04-13, 09:05
        
        "On your RIGHT" - BillyGoat, 2026-04-13, 09:46
        
        Some pretty cool Revelations stuff going on there! - bobbywal, 2026-04-13, 10:58
    - AI, I believe - atxND, 2026-04-13, 08:15
      - seems so. - PMan, 2026-04-13, 08:32
- “Pope Leo is weak on crime” - Jay, 2026-04-13, 07:04
  - Next, he’ll be “soft on Communism” - Jack, 2026-04-13, 14:19
  - It says everything about exactly who he is - KGB, 2026-04-13, 07:11
- and Pope Leo is "weak on crime" - KGB, 2026-04-13, 07:00
  - also weak on gun rights and the capital gains tax - Jay, 2026-04-13, 07:07
  - Pope Leo is...Marion "Cobra" Cobretti - Chris, 2026-04-13, 07:03
- He's going for the Caesar Augustus deification trick - IrishGuard, 2026-04-13, 06:45
- That even one person is ok with this is the actual issue. - Chris, 2026-04-13, 06:41
  - We can all agree that we’re tearing down every last thing - atxND, 2026-04-13, 07:53
    - I’ll volunteer to man a sledgehammer - Jack, 2026-04-13, 09:43
      - They could raise funds with this... - domer.mq, 2026-04-13, 10:34
    - I want to convert them all to homeless shelters - Jeff (BGS), 2026-04-13, 08:46
    - Damnatio memoriae - PMan, 2026-04-13, 08:02
    - said this elsewhere - Jay, 2026-04-13, 07:55
      - Do you think the Dems have the guts to do any of that? - MattG, 2026-04-13, 08:02
        
        At least rename the ballroom after Obama - Jack, 2026-04-13, 09:45
        
        Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this arch. - San Pedro, 2026-04-14, 06:27
        
        No. Wrong message. Gotta find a way to use the building - BillyGoat, 2026-04-13, 09:49
        
        Call it "Constitution Hall" - IrishGuard, 2026-04-13, 09:53
        
        Yeah, exactly - bobbywal, 2026-04-13, 08:12
        
        I think the opposite -- I don't see how the arch - Jay, 2026-04-13, 09:07
        
        The Immigration Arch - GloveND, 2026-04-14, 07:44
        
        I'm hoping we can run out the clock on the Arch - bobbywal, 2026-04-13, 09:44
        
        I could see Newsome doing it - Jay, 2026-04-13, 08:06
- He's mentally ill. - oviedoirish, 2026-04-13, 06:31

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Fr. Dowd in support of Pope Leo