"[This] encounter that I’m going to have with the highest-profile religious leader on the planet is also moving our agenda forward,” Johnson said. “That conversation is not separate and apart from the work that’s happening in Springfield or City Council or anywhere else.” Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Dream on Pinhead. That would be one line in sand that would have me moving out fast. Maybe an Airstream and Florida PO box.
Once again, the Pope meets with a pro abortionist, along with a long line of pro abortion Catholic politicians. Isn’t the Pope supposed to advocate for Catholic teachings?
Shouldn’t the Pope decline to meet with pro abortion politicians? That would send a message, especially to Catholics trying to observe the Church’s doctrine?
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jesus started the tradition of meeting with sinners.
I hope the Pope is smart enough to stay out of this one. Bad politics for him, and not in his job description anyway. Remember when the last Cardinal, Cupich, first got here. He stepped in it big time up to his knees right when he got here and came out supporting unions and minimum wages. His credibility as a cleric never recovered and a large number of Catholics got turned off instantly by his meddling.
That’s because he is a politician, not a priest.
That was the REASON FOR HIS TRIP ON TAXPAYERS MONEY??? Did he take his full security detail ?
He had 50 that traveled with him. Thats what the news reported.
Do we get reparations for relatives that died freeing the slave?
Perhaps this needs to come from Democrats who supported slavery and the KKK.
Sorry Brandon but you are talking out of both sides of your mouth, as usual. You want the Pope to help you with your reparations grift at the same time you and your scumbag Marxist CTU screwed over those families that want to send their kids to Catholic schools by helping kill the Invest in Kids Act. Your ilk also supports not just abortions but taxpayer funded abortions and the Pope is pro life. Furthermore, I am pretty sure that you have more than once invoked/parroted the “separation of church and state” talking point. So the leader of the Catholic… Read more »
It will take more than the pope to help you grift that kind of money. When you meet his holiness make sure you wear your black mask when you ask.
Idiot
Chicago residents are already getting reparations. They’re called Medicaid, SNAP, and guaranteed income. Reparations should be forcing CPS to provide quality education to prepare students to function in the real world. Handouts just keep people down, poor, uneducated, unable to to think for themselves , and forever dependent on the government.
Chicagoans should get reparations for Mayor Cliff Notes’ inept administration. Pope Leo should ask Mayor Notes about his and JB the Hutt’s fervent support of abortion up to and including infanticide.
After Johnson leaves, Pope Leo’s first act should be to call in the Vatican exorcist and put him to work.
So Mayor 6.6 is asking the Pope to pray for divine intervention in Chicago’s money woes?
Seriously, what is on his f ing mind. This reparations is being a carrot on stick for black voters. He should ask the pope to pray for Illinois
Perhaps Mayor Johnson will inquire regarding the Catholic run Magdalene Laundries treatment of women as forced labor into the late 20th century or is Johnson only focused on black groups exhibiting, once again, his obvious racism?
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/11/03/what-about-the-lost-children-and-mothers-of-america
Is he asking for reparations from the Catholic Church? Church owes a lot of reparations starting with treatment of Jews and “heretics” during Inquisition, treatment of natives in all the Americas, abuse in orphanages, as well as slavery. While there have been some reparations in Cook County, can’t see much more in IL or nationwide. What exactly does he want besides getting an acknowledgment that Church supported slavery in South?
Let’s not forget the Vatican’s lack of commitment to humanity as the Holocaust unfolded. In fact, they were later found to be complicit in helping Nazis escape Europe as the Reich crumbled through Odessa and other avenues. The “ Wope “ that warmly received abortion advocates and the Marxist mayor are two meaningless peas in a pod.
His backing that descendants of slaves deserve financial remuneration. All the free stuff they have gotten over the decades isn’t enough
Reparations are racist because it requires us to use the ‘one drop’ rule again. If someone has ‘one drop’ of ADOS (American Descendant of Slave) blood, they are entitled to reparations. If someone has African admixture but is a recent arrival, like Barry Obama, they have no ADOS blood, they don’t get reparations. The black community is going to need to pull out their genealogy charts and DNA charts to prove their racial heritage. Which will be completely crazy because African-American genealogy is difficult to do because they have multiple children with multiple partners and they sometimes don’t even know… Read more »