“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time

The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has said nothing.

Pope Leo XIV and Peter Thiel set against the flag of the People’s Republic of China, the government Thiel claims the pope’s AI encyclical was “working for.” (Letters from Leo illustration)

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