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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report
weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have a new pope and he's born in America.
Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, my friends, Yesterday was an
historic day for many, many reasons. The papal conclave in
(00:28):
the Vatican selected the two hundred and sixty seventh pontiff.
It is going to be Pope Leo the fourteenth, as
he is now called, Cardinal Robert Francis Pravo. Born in America.
That's right, born in Chicago. He is the first American
(00:50):
born pope in the history of the entire papacy. In fact,
he is the first pope not just from America but
from North America.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And many in the media, including President Trump, whose pride
obviously was enhanced, his American pride beaming at the prospect
now that he will be meeting soon the first pope
in history who was born in the United States. Listen
(01:25):
now to President Trump after news, and it was historic news.
No one thought Provo was going to win. Many thought
there were going to be other candidates who were ahead
of him, other leading contenders. Provo came out of nowhere.
And to the shock of the people in Saint Peter's Square,
(01:46):
to the shock of people around the world, and to
the shock of people across the United States. It is
an American pope. Listen now to President Trump speaking to
reporters outside a White House upon news of the election
of Robert, or Cardinal Robert Francis provo now leo the
(02:10):
fourteenth roll cut twelve, Mike, what.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
They have already spoken to us, and let's see what happens.
But again, to have the vote from the United States
of America, that's a great honor. That's a great honor.
And they said he's from America.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He said, he's great. So he also said the same
thing on truth social This is a great honor, he
said for the United States. He is proud. His American pride,
as I said, is beaming. And he now said he
plans to meet him soon, and he said it will
be honor to shake his hand and to meet the
(03:06):
first pope who comes from the United States in history,
literally in the history of the papacy. And look, there's
no question about it. When I first heard the news,
I was stunned. I was surprised, and in one sense
pleasantly surprised that this was an American born pope, as
I said from Chicago. However, to be brutally honest with
(03:28):
all of you, I began to look more and more
into his background. I frankly had not heard of Robert
Francis Provo before, as most Catholics around the world didn't.
I knew the leading contenders, I knew some of the
key players, but Cardinal Provo now again, Leo the fourteenth,
(03:48):
I had not heard of. The more I researched, the
more I found out again, if I'm not here to
speak the truth, then there's no point in me being
behind this micro The less enthusiastic I became Now, I
want to say this. He is a new pope, just
(04:08):
elected yesterday. He is sixty nine years old. By all accounts,
he is a very good, decent, humble man, and I
truly pray for him and his papacy. I want this
pope to succeed. I really want to stress this, but
the more I looked into it, it confirmed all of
(04:30):
my worst fears. They're all of these tweets now that
he has issued over the last four, five, six, seven,
eight years, are all starting to resurface. This is a
leftist pope. There's no question he is anti Trump, he
is anti Maga, he is pro open borders. In fact,
(04:54):
he is a self styled left wing globalist in the
mold of late Pope Francis. In fact, he owes everything
to Francis. If Francis basically plucked him from obscurity and
promoted him to one of the senior ranks as cardinals.
(05:17):
And this is why, if you noticed in his first
address yesterday, after it was announced here we now have
a new pope, Pope Leo the fourteenth, he kept thanking
Francis over and over and over again. That has never
been done before in the two thousand years of the papacy.
(05:40):
You never thank on your opening speech. You don't even
mention your predecessor, never mind thank or praise your predecessor.
Why because everything is being born anew. It is a
new papacy, infused in theory by the Holy Spirit. And
(06:02):
so you talk about what you want to do for
the church, what your message for the church is. You
never mention your predecessor. He did, he did again and
again and again. And I think the reason is obvious.
What Francis did, especially in the last several years of
(06:22):
his papacy as his health waned, was he wanted to
cement his left wing legacy, his almost revolutionary transformation of
the church into a much more globalist, progressive, clearly socialist direction,
there's no question. And so what he did was he
(06:47):
stacked the College of Cardinals with essentially fellow travelers, with acolytes,
people who thought like him, people who believed in exactly
the same in terms of the progressive wing of the church,
the left wing wing of the church. And so what
he did was he started to promote people from all
(07:08):
over the world, and so they stacked the College of Cardinals,
and so we were gonna have another left wing pope.
It was almost inevitable. And that's the result. That's what
we got now with Pope Leo the fourteenth. Now furthermore,
just so that you know this Pope Yes was born
(07:32):
in America, God bless him, but he has spent most
of his life in Peru. His church years dominated by
him being a missionary and then eventually a bishop in Peru.
He has Peruvian citizenship, so he's not just an American citizen,
he's also a citizen of Peru. Furthermore, he also spent
(07:56):
some time in the Vatican. Now his job at the Vatican,
he was very close with Pope Francis, very very close.
He saw his role as furthering and perpetuating the legacy
of Francis. As I said on X yesterday and I
want to repeat it, Pope Leo the fourteenth is Pope
(08:22):
Francis two point zero meet the new boss, same as
the old boss. And as these tweets now and there's
more and more of them that are surfacing, what they
clearly now show is he does not believe in borders.
Like Pope Francis, he believes that there should not be
(08:43):
any secure borders, in particular when it comes to the
United States. He has been a staunch opponent of Trump's
border and immigration crackdown. He is against mass deportations. In fact,
he is a defender of Kilmar Abrago Garcia, the quote
(09:06):
unquote Marilyn Man, the l Salvadorian illegal, the gang, the
MS thirteen gangbanger, the human trafficker, and wife beater. There
is a post that he retweeted in which someone said
about kill Mar Abrago Garcia, Have you no conscience? Do
(09:27):
you not care for his suffering? Do you not care
for his pain. And all I'm thinking is, what about
the suffering of all of his victims? What about the
suffering of Ms thirteen? What about the suffering of the
victims of illegal alien crime? How come nobody weeps for them?
(09:48):
And why doesn't the church weep for them? But it
doesn't matter. He is in the vein of Francis and
so he doesn't believe there should be any borders. He
supports it's unlimited third world immigration. He is against Trump.
He is against almost all of Trump's policies. He schooled Jadvance,
(10:10):
which to me was incredible when earlier this year jd
Vance citing what's called the principle of subsidiarity, which is
at the heart of Catholic teaching, which is, yes, of
course you love everybody, but you love your family. Then
you know your neighbor, your community, your country. In other words,
(10:33):
there are sort of levels of love. The closer it
is to you, the more you love that person. He
came out and said, no, Jesus doesn't rank to anybody's love.
In other words, you should love someone in well Peru
just as much as your own wife, or your own husband,
or your own children. It's pure Marxist globalism that's with
(11:00):
this Pope has been peddling at least up until his
election right now, and I suspect we're going to get more.
He is a big defender of Black Lives Matter and
called for everyone to honor George Floyd and for an
end to racism and racial oppression in America. In other words,
(11:21):
he is a man of the left, by the left
for the left.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report
weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have a new pope and he's born in America.
Good morning, Cooner country. Okay, my friends, Yesterday was an
historic day for many, many reasons. The papal conclave in
(00:28):
the Vatican selected the two hundred and sixty seventh pontiff.
It is going to be Pope Leo the fourteenth, as
he is now called, Cardinal Robert Francis Pravo. Born in America.
That's right, born in Chicago. He is the first American
(00:50):
born pope in the history of the entire papacy. In fact,
he is the first pope not just from America but
from North America.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And many in the media, including President Trump, whose pride
obviously was enhanced, his American pride beaming at the prospect
now that he will be meeting soon the first pope
in history who was born in the United States. Listen
(01:25):
now to President Trump after news, and it was historic news.
No one thought Provo was going to win. Many thought
there were going to be other candidates who were ahead
of him, other leading contenders. Provo came out of nowhere.
And to the shock of the people in Saint Peter's Square,
(01:46):
to the shock of people around the world, and to
the shock of people across the United States. It is
an American pope. Listen now to President Trump speaking to
reporters outside a White House upon news of the election
of Robert, or Cardinal Robert Francis provo now leo the
(02:10):
fourteenth roll cut twelve, Mike, what.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
They have already spoken to us, and let's see what happens.
But again, to have the vote from the United States
of America, that's a great honor. That's a great honor.
And they said he's from America.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He said, he's great. So he also said the same
thing on truth social This is a great honor, he
said for the United States. He is proud. His American pride,
as I said, is beaming. And he now said he
plans to meet him soon, and he said it will
be honor to shake his hand and to meet the
(03:06):
first pope who comes from the United States in history,
literally in the history of the papacy. And look, there's
no question about it. When I first heard the news,
I was stunned. I was surprised, and in one sense
pleasantly surprised that this was an American born pope, as
I said from Chicago. However, to be brutally honest with
(03:28):
all of you, I began to look more and more
into his background. I frankly had not heard of Robert
Francis Provo before, as most Catholics around the world didn't.
I knew the leading contenders, I knew some of the
key players, but Cardinal Provo now again, Leo the fourteenth,
(03:48):
I had not heard of. The more I researched, the
more I found out again, if I'm not here to
speak the truth, then there's no point in me being
behind this micro The less enthusiastic I became Now, I
want to say this. He is a new pope, just
(04:08):
elected yesterday. He is sixty nine years old. By all accounts,
he is a very good, decent, humble man, and I
truly pray for him and his papacy. I want this
pope to succeed. I really want to stress this, but
the more I looked into it, it confirmed all of
(04:30):
my worst fears. They're all of these tweets now that
he has issued over the last four, five, six, seven,
eight years, are all starting to resurface. This is a
leftist pope. There's no question he is anti Trump, he
is anti Maga, he is pro open borders. In fact,
(04:54):
he is a self styled left wing globalist in the
mold of late Pope Francis. In fact, he owes everything
to Francis. If Francis basically plucked him from obscurity and
promoted him to one of the senior ranks as cardinals.
(05:17):
And this is why, if you noticed in his first
address yesterday, after it was announced here we now have
a new pope, Pope Leo the fourteenth, he kept thanking
Francis over and over and over again. That has never
been done before in the two thousand years of the papacy.
(05:40):
You never thank on your opening speech. You don't even
mention your predecessor, never mind thank or praise your predecessor.
Why because everything is being born anew. It is a
new papacy, infused in theory by the Holy Spirit. And
(06:02):
so you talk about what you want to do for
the church, what your message for the church is. You
never mention your predecessor. He did, he did again and
again and again. And I think the reason is obvious.
What Francis did, especially in the last several years of
(06:22):
his papacy as his health waned, was he wanted to
cement his left wing legacy, his almost revolutionary transformation of
the church into a much more globalist, progressive, clearly socialist direction,
there's no question. And so what he did was he
(06:47):
stacked the College of Cardinals with essentially fellow travelers, with acolytes,
people who thought like him, people who believed in exactly
the same in terms of the progressive wing of the church,
the left wing wing of the church. And so what
he did was he started to promote people from all
(07:08):
over the world, and so they stacked the College of Cardinals,
and so we were gonna have another left wing pope.
It was almost inevitable. And that's the result. That's what
we got now with Pope Leo the fourteenth. Now furthermore,
just so that you know this Pope Yes was born
(07:32):
in America, God bless him, but he has spent most
of his life in Peru. His church years dominated by
him being a missionary and then eventually a bishop in Peru.
He has Peruvian citizenship, so he's not just an American citizen,
he's also a citizen of Peru. Furthermore, he also spent
(07:56):
some time in the Vatican. Now his job at the Vatican,
he was very close with Pope Francis, very very close.
He saw his role as furthering and perpetuating the legacy
of Francis. As I said on X yesterday and I
want to repeat it, Pope Leo the fourteenth is Pope
(08:22):
Francis two point zero meet the new boss, same as
the old boss. And as these tweets now and there's
more and more of them that are surfacing, what they
clearly now show is he does not believe in borders.
Like Pope Francis, he believes that there should not be
(08:43):
any secure borders, in particular when it comes to the
United States. He has been a staunch opponent of Trump's
border and immigration crackdown. He is against mass deportations. In fact,
he is a defender of Kilmar Abrago Garcia, the quote
(09:06):
unquote Marilyn Man, the l Salvadorian illegal, the gang, the
MS thirteen gangbanger, the human trafficker, and wife beater. There
is a post that he retweeted in which someone said
about kill Mar Abrago Garcia, Have you no conscience? Do
(09:27):
you not care for his suffering? Do you not care
for his pain. And all I'm thinking is, what about
the suffering of all of his victims? What about the
suffering of Ms thirteen? What about the suffering of the
victims of illegal alien crime? How come nobody weeps for them?
(09:48):
And why doesn't the church weep for them? But it
doesn't matter. He is in the vein of Francis and
so he doesn't believe there should be any borders. He
supports it's unlimited third world immigration. He is against Trump.
He is against almost all of Trump's policies. He schooled Jadvance,
(10:10):
which to me was incredible when earlier this year jd
Vance citing what's called the principle of subsidiarity, which is
at the heart of Catholic teaching, which is, yes, of
course you love everybody, but you love your family. Then
you know your neighbor, your community, your country. In other words,
(10:33):
there are sort of levels of love. The closer it
is to you, the more you love that person. He
came out and said, no, Jesus doesn't rank to anybody's love.
In other words, you should love someone in well Peru
just as much as your own wife, or your own husband,
or your own children. It's pure Marxist globalism that's with
(11:00):
this Pope has been peddling at least up until his
election right now, and I suspect we're going to get more.
He is a big defender of Black Lives Matter and
called for everyone to honor George Floyd and for an
end to racism and racial oppression in America. In other words,
(11:21):
he is a man of the left, by the left
for the left.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You're locked into Boston's bulldozer. The Kooner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
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