Is Hypocrisy A Sin?

In Christianity that is? Specifically in the Roman Catholic creed?

I just visited the Vatican for the first time last month. It was freezing. While in line outside, there was a homeless man with no shoes or socks on begging right outside the Vatican gates.

Then I walked through Vatican security.

No more homeless people to be seen. https://t.co/0rXvmkW7YG

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 10, 2025

Kelly’s response to news that the Pope continues to bash President Trump on myriad matters, from his policies on illegal immigrants to all cutting out all the moolah that had been handed out by USAID.

I’ve also been to the Vatican and its security is up there with that of the White House; slightly more discreet but just as effective; no homeless, no immigrant panhandlers (unlike the rest of Rome).

Also this history of how USAID kept going with “independent media” in Europe after the Cold War…

I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports. Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West.

As always read the whole thing, which is a bunch of X-posts that have been chained together so that non-X-subscribers can read all of them with a single click.