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Pope vs Trump: why Trump picked a fight with Pope Leo

Pope vs Trump: why Trump picked a fight with Pope Leo

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Donald Trump’s latest clash with the Catholic Church stunned even the most hardened veterans of culture-war X. According to the President of the United States, the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, the conspicuously holy spiritual leader of 1.3 billion people, is “WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy.” He also claimed that, “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.” – The Spectator's Vatican corresponded Damian Thompson and Freddy Gray join in a podcast collaboration to discuss the dispute.

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