Pope Francis was a very good man but we now “have to have a more conservative Pope who’s going to return the church to its solid, traditional values, because I think that’s where the American people are,” says Fred Fleitz, Vice Chair for the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security, to Newsmax.
“I’m a conservative Catholic, and I’m very sad about the passing of Pope Francis. He was a good man who cared deeply about the poor and the dispossessed and the isolated, but he also was a liberal globalist, and I had differences with him politically on his views towards global affairs,” Fleitz said Monday during an appearance on Newsmax’s “American Agenda.”
Still, “I just think it was beautiful that Vice President Vance, who also had disagreements with him, had such a wonderful meeting during the Pope’s last day on Earth, and they both greeted each other cordially, because it’s the human connection and the human condition, which is what we need to put ahead of politics.
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