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4. Nope. All popes who have globally put love for the poor and migrants first have been woke, because Jesus was
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 11:44 PM
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the embodiment of "Woke." He was all DEI, too. Jesus' teachings were all about the poor, the humble, the suffering, the sinners. In 3 of the 4 gospels when the Pharisees ask why JC eats with tax collectors and sinners, he answers, "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Go and learn what that means. I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, for I am not here to save the righteous, but the sinners."

Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II were also woke. So woke that Pope Francis had John XXIII canonized as a saint. (Also Netflix has a moving documentary on Poland's John Paul II.)

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