In September, the pope allowed the display of a rainbow-colored crucifix at the Vatican as part of some LGBTQ+ Catholic pilgrimage
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Safe to say, traditional Catholics repelled by the liberal views of the late Pope Francis are not finding much relief under its new pontiff.
In October, Pope Leo took yet another sharp-tongued and sarcastic aim at President Donald Trump for ejecting illegal immigrants from America, likening it to abortion and implying he is a hypocrite. “Someone who says I am against abortion but in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro life,” the Bishop of Rome pondered out loud to media from his luxe Castel Gandolfo digs in Italy.
Castel Gandolfo, for the record, is the Pope’s summer home. The Apostolic Palace is a sprawling edifice that is a staggering 1.7 million square feet in size and boasts 1,000 rooms. To put that in perspective, Pope Leo lives in a building that is about one acre in size.
The palace itself is surrounded by 135 acres
that make up Vatican City, which has a small residential population of
only 600 permanent residents, which translates into a ton of open space.
The luxe property consists of elaborate gardens, an observatory, and
tennis courts and would enrapture anyone living there. It is definitely
large enough to shelter hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants. ---More---
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