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[CTyankee]

1. Quote him to your right wing "buds" who haven't awakened yet....

[no_hypocrisy]

2. No wonder Steve Bannon loathes this Pope.

His choice of Pope would have been a combination of Benedict and Francis Cardinal Spellman.

[DenaliDemocrat]

3. So good to see Catholics concerned with social justice

This was the Church I grew up in.

[mcar]

5. Me too!

[chia]

4. While I think he holds these ideas, the quote in the OP is fake.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-leo-xiv-woke-quote/

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/fake-pope-leo-quotes-praising-woke-spread-online/article_06b10b72-cbee-54f3-bf97-321ba62565e6.html

Here are his actual words:

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-leo-faith-cannot-be-separated-from-love-for-the-poor.html

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20251004-dilexi-te.html

[pnwmom]

6. He has said much that agrees with the sentiment but, yes, that quote is fake. nt

[mopinko]

7. and it will never die now.