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Absolutely WILD scenes in Peru

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🚨 It looks like millions of people have come out on the streets of Lima to greet Pope Leo XIV on his return to Peru

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@DecreviD2BC Congrats 🙏

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Peru is going crazy for the return of Pope Leo XIV 🇵🇪

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Amazing 🇵🇪 🇻🇦

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A massive outpouring of people on the streets of Lima to welcome Pope Leo XIV to Peru

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Bells ring out in Lima as hundreds of thousands line the streets to see Pope Leo XIV

The first Peruvian citizen to become pope

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Pope Leo XIV has been travelling by car for over 30 minutes and there have been huge crowds waiting to greet him on every street

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People are lined up all along the motorway to see Pope Leo XIV in Peru

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The pope has just landed in Peru and already the crowds are going CRAZY

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The EMOTION is palpable as Pope Leo XIV greets children on the runway in Peru

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🚨 Pope Leo XIV has LANDED in Peru

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@JMilei 🙏 🇦🇷 🇻🇦

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He's BACK

Pope Leo XIV has landed in Peru

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Speaking of foreign influence ops

Ireland had referendums to legalise same sex marriage and abortion because of an American politician who moved from the States

She got the government to run both referendums and American NGOs and multinationals backed them while US tech companies censored the opposition

Both measures passed and she later returned to the States

Republicans did absolutely nothing to help those who wanted to oppose either vote, either before or since, but they do regularly chip in on happenings in Ireland with such nuggets as 'Wow what happened to Ireland they're all gone woke over there'

Just while we are on the subject

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Tragically, every word of this is accurate.

It’s a foreign influence op that is ripping our Nation apart 👇👇👇

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Imagine telling these people that he would be back 12 years later as the pope 🤣

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Fr. Robert Prevost during his time in Peru

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'Is there a problem officers?'

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Podrás tener toda la seguridad del mundo pero nunca vas a poder contra... un perro?

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Pope Leo XIV's flight from Argentina to Peru is currently the most tracked flight in the WORLD

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On Veterans Day we recall:

58% of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish

Over 50% of foreign born recipients were Irish born

5 of 19 of the two time recipients were Irish Catholics

The most decorated Chaplain in US Military history was an Irish Catholic priest

GREATEST ALLY 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

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On Veterans Day, we recall the most decorated chaplain in US history

That man is an Irish priest born in North America named Father Francis Duffy

Duffy was born in Ontario, Canada in 1871 to Patrick and Mary Duffy

His grandparents had hailed from Monaghan and Roscommon and had left Ireland during the mass starvation of the 1840s and 1850s

Duffy studied at Saint Joseph's Seminary in New York

He was an accomplished student, teacher and priest, earning a doctorate from the Catholic University of America and founding a parish in the Bronx

His later involvement in the armed forces would define his priesthood

When World War I broke out, Duffy was chaplain for the Irish American Fighting 69th Brigade, composed of men from the Bronx

Duffy was revered by the men, he accompanied them with hearing confessions and administering Last Rites

Fr. Duffy was more than just a chaplain

He was beside them in the trenches with the men and was amongst them as they fought and in many cases, died

General Douglas McArthur once said that Duffy was even considered for the role of commander

Fr. Duffy was known for hosting long confession lines at the trenches and for recovering bodies from No Man's Land

Following his military career, Duffy helped politician Al Smith in his political career

Al Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for President and was subjected to horrific anti Catholicism and anti Irish racism

Smith was able to leverage their friendship and point out Duffy's patriotism to critics of Catholicism

25,000 people attended Duffy's funeral in 1932

He was described as 'a priest, a scholar, a soldier. His name had become a household word, because of the nobility of his life and the valor of his deeds. Thousands looked up to him and he was venerated by many'

In 1937, the statue of Father Francis Duffy was unveiled in Times Square in New York