30 years my eye. We are a nation of immigrants except for the 1st peoples to be here.

Rome, Georgia that is. His name is Earl Buzzworm, and he is no dang foreigner. Unless we're talking Rome, Oregon but they have no aqueducts, just a few irrigation ditches.

complaining that the Pope is criticizing Trump for "religious" reasons.

These guys set off my irony meter all of the time.

South part.

On second thought forget about the church!

n/t.

places denigration of LGBT very high in his universe of priorities. That so called 'Savior' also commanded that his followers not call anyone but God 'father' and Francis likes to be called Father so the 'Savior' can work around that. The 'man who died for us' also very strongly and in great detail commanded that his followers never pray out loud or in public. He said to pray only in most private places, but Francis has need of 'prayer' as theater, to be done in the most public way one can possibly arrange. 'The Christ' said only hypocrites pray in public. I agree with 'the Christ' rather than 'his Vicar'.

Is it not possible, as you see it, to disagree with Francis on those views, to call on him to re-examine and consider changing them and still, at the same time, commend his opposition to xenophobia and greed?

He's not a presidential candidate, after all.

Or this guy, described by Thomas Frank:

David Allen Bawden (born September 22, 1959 in Oklahoma City[1]), who takes the name Pope Michael, is an American citizen and a conclavist claimant to the papacy. He stated in 2009 that he had approximately 30 "solid" followers.[2]

Bawden was elected by a group of six laypeople, which included himself and his parents, who had come to believe that the post-Vatican II Catholic Church had seceded from the Catholic faith, and that there had been no legitimate Popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.

Contents

1 Background
2 Claim to the papacy
3 References
4 External links

Background

In 1975, Bawden and his family began to follow the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). Bawden attended the SSPX seminary in Écône, Switzerland and Saint Joseph's Priory, Armada, Michigan, but was dismissed from the seminary in 1978.[1]

Bawden claims to have been elected to the papacy in 1990, in a papal conclave attended by five other people, including his parents.[3]
Claim to the papacy
See also: Sedevacantism

Bawden believes that all the Popes since the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958 are modernists, heretics, and apostates, and that, therefore, their elections are invalid.[4] He considers them to have incurred latae sententiae, or automatic excommunication, for violating Pope Pius X's laws.[4]

A feature-length documentary has been made about Bawden.[5][6] Bawden was the subject in a chapter of the 2004 book What's the Matter with Kansas? by American journalist and historian Thomas Frank.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bawden

I'm trying desperately to avoid a ton of "Gunsmoke" references now.

Someone should do a Photoshop on that, though?

keep those damn farinars out! Instead of what would Jesus do, it should be, "How would we treat Jesus?" (if he existed) Their reaction says a lot about them.