“Before Borders, There Are Always Persons” — Pope Leo XIV Answers MAGA in Rimini

Hours after gutting the postliberalism JD Vance sells as Catholic, the pope told 60,000 people that Catholic culture must counter the “alse realism that rearms minds, words and nations.”

Pope Leo XIV during the vigil Mass at the port of Rimini, Italy, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. The green vestments belong to the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, whose readings handed him Peter’s confession and Isaiah’s oracle against Shebna. (Vatican Media)

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