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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun May 3, 2026, 02:14 PM Sunday

Pope Launches Scarcely Concealed Attack on Trump

Pope Leo XIV has promoted a former undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics in a sign he won’t be intimidated by President Donald Trump.

Evelio Menjivar-Ayala came to the U.S. in 1990 as an undocumented immigrant, having been smuggled into the country in the trunk of a car.

On Friday, Pope Leo, who has criticized Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, tapped Menjivar-Ayala to be West Virginia’s new bishop. He will replace retiring West Virginia Bishop Mark Brennan, a man who, incidentally, helped Menjivar-Ayala secure a green card years ago.

Menjivar-Ayala, 55, has told the Washington Post how he fled violence in his home country of El Salvador three times when he was a teenager before finally arriving in Los Angeles, where his sister was living. He worked as a janitor, painter, and in construction before entering religious life.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pope-launches-scarcely-concealed-attack-210751271.html

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Pope Launches Scarcely Concealed Attack on Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday OP
... I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger struggle4progress Sunday #1
The DOJ..... MyOwnPeace Sunday #2
That's not an attack on anyone. It's an appropriate appointment. Scrivener7 Sunday #3

struggle4progress

(126,600 posts)
1. ... I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
Sun May 3, 2026, 02:26 PM
Sunday

and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me ...

Matthew 25

Scrivener7

(60,012 posts)
3. That's not an attack on anyone. It's an appropriate appointment.
Sun May 3, 2026, 05:26 PM
Sunday

Its a guy running his organization without cow-towing to an idiot.

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