A-Infos (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Let's give the Pope a very unpleasant welcome!!! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Macron is hosting the Pope with public money: some people are just being 
unreasonable! ---- The chief charlatan of the Catholic Church will be 
visiting France from September 25th to 28th, 2026, and most media 
outlets are already portraying him as a knight in shining armor 
preparing to celebrate giant masses. ---- Macron is waiting for his 
halo, hoping to bask in the sun next to this sorry excuse for a man. In 
a tweet in May, he announced that this visit "will be an honor for our 
country, a joy for Catholics, and a great moment of hope for all." ---- 
The Pope's visit is a major squandering of public money and bigoted 
idolatry. We don't expect an organization that lives lavishly off 
donations from wealthy capitalists to pacify the world and change the 
fate of refugees, the vulnerable, the oppressed, etc.

As anti-authoritarians, we do not seek to coerce consciences. We leave 
that to the priests. To their obscurantism, we oppose a firm and 
rationalist critique of this visit, which dangerously blurs the lines 
between the two.

The State demands the signing of a republican commitment contract for an 
association to reserve a function room, while simultaneously opening the 
Stade de France to the chief theocrat, and the city of Metz proudly 
declares it is spending 500,000 euros of public money to receive the 
puppet in the Popemobile... The confusion is utter!

Let us remember that the Pope is both a head of state and a religious 
leader. The Vatican does not distinguish between divine law and civil 
law. Leo XIV commands both souls and bodies. Beneath his doting 
grandfatherly exterior, he is a tyrant like any other.

The Pope obviously opposes the rights of women, homosexuals, gender 
minorities, etc. The Church and the State are always in league against 
the self-determination of individuals and peoples. This visit will give 
him a wide platform to oppose individual freedoms at our expense.

His mission is to maintain existing forms of domination. He is the 
anti-anarchist personified.

While professing militant atheism, the Anarchist Federation asserts its 
demands for secularism. Establishing the separation of Church and State 
is only part of the journey. Separating the State from capital is 
already better, but still insufficient. The churches, the State, and 
capital all want to command, dominate, intimidate, coerce, subordinate, 
and control... As long as these three monsters reign over society, 
secularism will be nothing but a sham.

A true secularism means the abolition of all powers, all orders, and all 
institutions that organize the domination and exploitation of some over 
others, at every level.

Not a single cent of public money for the Pope!
To be free, let us live without God or master!
Down with the clergy, down with the State, long live Socialism and long 
live Anarchy!

Anarchist Federation,
August 20, 2026

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