I Doubt God Wants You to Send Bomb Threats to Pope Leo’s Brother 

We don’t know who called in a bomb threat to Pope Leo’s brother’s house on Wednesday. But the timing is hard to ignore: Donald Trump is fighting with Pope Leo—who recently had the audacity to suggest maybe the U.S. shouldn’t bomb Iran—and JD Vance just called him a liar. So make of that what you will! Remember when Vance claimed the so-called “radical left” is who “causes tremendous violence.”

Police responded to the reported bomb threat at John Prevost’s house in Illinois at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night, according to a press release from the New Lenox Police Department. Neighbors were asked to evacuate their homes out of an abundance of caution; luckily, cops didn’t find anything. 

“The incident remains under investigation as authorities work to determine the origin of the report,” police said in a statement. “Making false reports of this nature is a serious offense and may result in criminal charges.”

Pope Leo has two brothers: the other one is Louis, who lives in Florida and appears to have Trump’s approval. “Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social rant on Sunday. “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.” In the same post, he said the Pope was “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy”—two core responsibilities of the head of the Catholic Church, obviously.

On Thursday, the Trump administration escalated this insane feud further by canceling an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, which helps shelter homeless migrant children. Oh, and Pete Hegseth quoted the infamous violent speech from Pulp Fiction during a prayer at the Pentagon on Wednesday, but claimed it was an actual verse from the Bible.

In summary, if God hadn’t already abandoned the U.S., I’m sure She finally did this week. 

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