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Pope Titanic Blesses the Iceberg, Puts Trad Media Into Perfect Hibernation
Climate Rituals, Cupich’s Durbin Award, and Conservative Excuses in a 24-Hour Papal Trainwreck
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Climate Rituals, Cupich’s Durbin Award, and Conservative Excuses in a 24-Hour Papal Trainwreck
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Oct 01, 2025
The Iceberg and the Titanic Pope
The last 24 hours gave us the most surreal sequence yet in Leo XIV’s short reign. In the span of a single day, he declared that being pro-life “means more than just opposing abortion,” condemned Trump’s migrant policy as “inhumane,” sneered at Pete Hegseth as a “warmonger,” named climate change “the defining moral issue of our time,” defended Cardinal Cupich honoring pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin and then capped it all off by blessing a block of ice at Castel Gandolfo.
The Ice Block Heard Round the World
The images are unforgettable: Leo, dressed in white, solemnly resting his hand on a slab of ice under a digital giraffe, while NGO activists recited climate mantras.
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Catholic Sat’s caption blandly called it “The Blessing of the Waters,” but to outside observers it looked like a pagan rite.
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Matt Walsh called it “horrific” and “pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual.”
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