The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, said he was “disheartened” by Trump’s comments in a statement Sunday, adding that “Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician.
Pax Christi USA, the national Catholic peace movement, called Trump’s Sunday posts “wildly offensive.”
“As the Holy Father said this morning, he is not a politician; those of us who are citizens of the United States, however, have a moral obligation to hold our elected officials accountable for their words and actions,” a spokesperson for the organization said. “It is past time for those who are closest to the president to step in and to stop enabling this grotesque behavior.”
The Pope is not ‘always and perfectly right’
Not all Catholics rallied to the Pope’s cause, however.
Joseph Arlinghaus, founder and president of Valor America, a conservative superPAC that spent millions of dollars to re-elect Trump in 2024, described the episode as “just another Monday morning.”
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