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The pope's new communication regime getting off to a rocky start
There is confusion in Argentina over the deletion of an X post which read:
'You can say that from now on, this country has two Popes: one who was born here and another by adoption'
When lockdown happened at Easter 2020, an Irish priest used John Paul II's popemobile frim 1979 to travel from village to village with the monstrance on Holy Thursday
This small and disinterested article is virtually all that exists about the pope's blockbuster visit to South America in the Irish media
Irish journalists are terrified of what will happen if their audiences know that millions of people have been attending events with the pope for the past week
The hold that they have over the Irish population relies heavily on withholding and skewing information
Pope Leo has drawn vast crowds to Argentina's holiest shrine on the final day of his visit before he departs for Peru, where he spent nearly two decades as a missionary rte.ie/news/world/2026/1111/…
In Ireland, you can rent the actual popemobile used by Pope John Paul II when he visited in 1979
It is popular with stag and hen parties and costs 300 euro an hour
The streets, the motorways, the bridges
All PACKED with people for hours as they lined upvto see Pope Leo XIV back in Peru
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Speaking of foreign influence ops
Ireland had referendums to legalise same sex marriage and abortion because of an American politician who moved from the States
She got the government to run both referendums and American NGOs and multinationals backed them while US tech companies censored the opposition
Both measures passed and she later returned to the States
Republicans did absolutely nothing to help those who wanted to oppose either vote, either before or since, but they do regularly chip in on happenings in Ireland with such nuggets as 'Wow what happened to Ireland they're all gone woke over there'
Just while we are on the subject
🚨 It looks like millions of people have come out on the streets of Lima to greet Pope Leo XIV on his return to Peru
Bells ring out in Lima as hundreds of thousands line the streets to see Pope Leo XIV
The first Peruvian citizen to become pope
Pope Leo XIV has been travelling by car for over 30 minutes and there have been huge crowds waiting to greet him on every street