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Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses, by Daniel McCarthy – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Grok (AI) image of "Pope Leo XIV and President Trump with boxing gloves on."

By Daniel McCarthy, Chronicles, April 13, 2026

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age. His latest publication is a foreword to The Conservative Affirmation, by Willmoore Kendall.

 

President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now—when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn’t worth fighting.

“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump said Sunday on his Truth social-media network, in a post blasting the pontiff as “weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.”

With midterm elections just seven months away, Catholic voters suddenly find themselves in the crossfire between the Vatican and the White House. Trump proved to be a magnet for Catholics two years ago: They accounted for more than 1 in 5 of his 2024 voters, and Trump bested Kamala Harris among Catholics by a commanding 12 points. …

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