Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here https://t.co/LEpC3u141T
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 1, 2025
October 2, 2025
"Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual."
That's Matt Walsh's interpretation. Decide for yourself:
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When religions collide, one result is called "religious syncretism": The blending of two or more religious beliefs into a new system, or the incorporation of beliefs from one tradition into another.
WTF is “climate justice” and what does it have to do with Catholicism? I’m sorry to see the Pope involved with this scam.
So ecclesiastical extortion- oh ooops i mean: sales of indulgences have returned...
Another pope, another ten years of Fake Good News coming. I've just about had it with this church.
worshiping Creation not the Creator, sigh,
This pope, apparently, smokes dope.
More Samuel Beckett than Thomas. As absurdist theater, it's great.
This isn’t “Christianity”.
Do a little dantz, like a Southern Baptist can’t!
"What the hell are we doing here ... "
Playing to the crowd.
Don't you fear the skydragon, iman
Justice is melting.
Professional courtesy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/20/climate-change-weekly-547-polar-ice-is-not-following-the-climate-crisis-narrative/
It's odd that the block of ice is so irregular. Someone must have said -- "let's use a block of ice that resembles a cross" -- and was vetoed.
that's pretty messed up..
by Odin's beard,
I prefer my water blessed.
Where's a cask of Pappy when you ned it?
"Suffer the little children unto me."
The Catholic Church never should have stepped into this CAGW mess. The Pope needs to stick to faith and morals.
I was so, so disappointed in the last Pope. As a Jesuit, he should have known better.
I get emails from a group called "Catholic Climate Covenant" and the basic position is that one is not a *good* Catholic if you disagree with the Green New Deal scam.
Post-Christian era. Aren’t going to defeat Islam with Christianity. The Catholic Church is a real estate company with executives in vestments.
Comedy Gold. Who doesn't love seeing a trans man in a dress perform some stupid ritual like it has any real meaning.
Remember, just like the Mormons, the Evangelical Pentecostal snake handling mouth foamers who speak in tongues believe that the Catholics are part of the Great Antichrist cover story as well.
is the Curia that deluded, probably so, I wonder what Bishop Sarah or Vigano think
Global warning: the ice block cometh.
I think I saw Trump's face form on the block of ice as it was melting.
If the burning of fossil fuels forestalls the next glaciation it will have been worth it for that reason alone.
A capella is a choice, but was it the best choice?
A clumsy reference to rolling down the river, but they're too uptight to be Holy Rollers.
Orthodox Church of America -- Matt Walsh on Line 1...
oh noes,
Yancey Ward said...
I think I saw Trump's face form on the block of ice as it was melting.
There's a thread winner.
Ice ice baby… ice ice baby…
werewolves of greenland,
The Catholic Church demonstrates why it is a bad idea.
When you have a centralized authority like the Pope now every Catholic is forced to go along with garbage like this.
Christianity was never meant to have a Pope. It was never meant to have a centralized political authority. The Catholic church was a political creation to harness the power of Christ's teachings and control populations.
There is a reason why Catholic countries are poor and governments in them are corrupt. The Vatican accrued massive wealth while people in Catholic countries lag far behind those of the anglosphere.
It just is what it is.
Capital C Catholicism has always been pagan-adjacent (don’t tell Hegseth). It’s part of the religious tradition.
Be sure to watch until the end, Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an appearance at 5:28.
the Anglicans are equally adrift, so are many other mainline denominations,
the Baptists have more resistant but then you have the like of Russell Moore,
Howard said...
Remember, just like the Mormons, the Evangelical Pentecostal snake handling mouth foamers who speak in tongues believe that the Catholics are part of the Great Antichrist cover story as well.
Decentralized structures lead to a wide array of results.
Some people are scared of intellectual diversity.
There is a reason Protestant Christianity is the cultural basis for the wealthiest countries in the world. No other religion could produce people and societies capable of freedom and high trust.
Liturgical Christianity has spent 2000 years co-opting paganism and other local habits into its calendars. Nearly all the major feasts are close to solstices and equinoxes. Pagan gods' cultic practices were subsumed into saints' cults (e.g. historical St Brigid and pagan Brigantia). Krauts use Tannenbaums for Christmas; their ancestors used to worship holy trees. Over time, everyone but church-history nerds forgets the pagan stuff and just enjoys the holiday with the new Christian content.
Is Leo trying to do the same with climate stuff? Or are the climate people trying to do the reverse? CC, JSM
the reverse is true, there's a gang of possums headed by former congressman inglis who is trying the same with the GOP
Leftists have infiltrated and taken over just about every organized religion. They are drifting vessels whose original contents have been thrown overboard and are now listing badly in one direction only, about to sink.
Is the Pope Catholic? Not anymore.
I blessed a block of ice once. Didn't get much reaction but it did melt as, I hear, the Pope's ice block did as well.
Achilles, there's an even bigger reason why the most primitive people in the northern hemisphere without a written language until 1,000-years ago now dominate the world. The enlightenment started North of Hadrian's Wall, eighty miles long, to separate the Romans from the barbarians.
"... Evangelical Pentecostal snake handling mouth foamers who speak in tongues ..."
All 3 of them?
To some extent, aren't all religions syncretic? They build on what is always there (the natural world) and what was already there (earlier pagan traditions).
BarrySanders20 (1st comment):
Since you mention "religious syncretism": I can't see the word "syncretism" without thinking "Hmmm, 'syn-' means 'with, together', so 'syncretism' must mean 'being cretins together, collective stupidity'."
Looks to me like that should do it. Climate change has been fixed. If you don't believe that then what was this all about?
I hope it wasn't just about bedding some hippy chick. She's gonna stalk you and ruin your life.
it seems to be a thing, personally I think there has been too much strife between branches of the same faith, Catholic Protestant and Orthodox (and who did that benefit)
The blessing of water is a traditional liturgical service, so I have no idea wtf the Pope is doing here. It ain't Catholic, that's for sure. If anything, it looks like something out of a Protestant megachurch. Also, water is supposed to be blessed as a LIQUID, not as ice, unless you're making Old Fashioneds for the local Knights of Columbus chapter.
that is heresy to the skydragon,
Does that block of ice weigh more than a duck?
I like the X post that sits right under it
Frankly, I think they played Rope-a-Pope.
Turn it into wine.
"Be sure to watch until the end, Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an appearance at 5:28."
LOL. I saw that too. Also looked like affirmative-action Supreme Court Justice Jackson was there shaking the silk.
Hivemind morons doing useless things to show "they care".
I'd hoped that this American Pope would be a normie, but all indications point to a libtard in a pointy hat.
This is the same church that J.D.Vance recently converted to.
During the Avignon Captivity the Popes lived in Avignon, France under the protection - and influence - of the French King. St Catherine of Siena worked to persuade the then current Pope that his mission required him both to be and to seem independent of any national power. She succeeded. And now we need another one like her. Ideological capture is just as bad as national capture. John Paul II knew all about that danger but the American Popes, Francis and Leo, have had a very simple-minded outlook on it. To them, if someone's words indicate an interest in the good and the true then that person is interested in the good and the true. Safely blind and so no need to confront the prince of this world in his latest guise.
Heh. One of the last times I voluntarily attended a Catholic mass (other than weddings and funerals) was on Cape Cod, sometime in the 1980's. The priest berated the congregation for not putting enough money into the collection plate to ensure that the clergymen housed in the palatial rectory with the scenic view were able to crank the air conditioning. On Cape Cod, where it rarely gets above 80 degrees, and nobody had or used AC.
My first though was of the Jules Feiffer dancer, in her leotard, doing a dance to the blessing of the ice cube.
Walsh is not wrong.
I've seen lots of weirdness, this barely qualifies.
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