Pope Leo XIV Undercuts Cernovich’s Abortion Prediction
From abortion to immigration, the pope calls for a broader ethic of life.
Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion this week, pushing back against speculation from right-wing commentators that he would take the Church in a liberal direction.
The pope repeated that abortion is a violation of human dignity and said Catholic teaching on marriage as the union of a man and a woman remains unchanged. At the same time, he expanded his message, warning that the pro-life label loses meaning when it ignores the treatment of immigrants and other vulnerable people. “Someone who says ‘I am against abortion’ but ‘in agreement with inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
The remarks stood in sharp contrast to comments made when Leo was first elected. Conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich called him an “open borders globalist” and predicted he would “be pushing for abortion.” MAGA activist Laura Loomer attacked him as “anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.” Influencer Joey Mannarino said Leo was “worse than Francis” and a “liberal piece of [expletive].”
Leo’s recent statements show the opposite. He has kept traditional Catholic positions on abortion and marriage intact while pressing for consistency across the wider pro-life ethic.
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