My claim is not that Donald Trump is “the” Antichrist or literally Satan. My claim is that just as people like Robert Prevost—or Dorothy Day or Óscar Romero—can “image” Christ, can show us glimpses of the face of Christ, so also those who descend into selfishness and egomania can “image” Satan.
Donald Trump
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Pope Leo: I am ‘not trying to debate the president’
Some journalists have sought to interpret Leo’s statements in Africa in an anti-Trump light, even though they were all written many days before the president made his statement on social media.
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Podcast: ‘Don’t Take the Bait’: A Roundtable on Trump’s Pope Leo Comments
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” America Editor-in-Chief Fr. Sam Sawyer, SJ, joins Vatican Correspondent Colleen Dulle and Executive Editor Ashley McKinless for a roundtable discussion on the recent comments President Trump and other administration officials have made about Pope Leo, and the pope’s response given en route to his tour of four African countries.
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Trump says he has ‘right to disagree’ with Pope Leo, ‘not necessary’ to meet him
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House April 16 that he does not see a meeting with Pope Leo XIV as “necessary” after his social media tirade.
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Money, ideology and polarization: Why the Catholic Church blesses social justice
This week on “Jesuitical,” a roundtable on President Trump’s broadside against Pope Leo, plus John Carr on his decades of work spreading Catholic social teaching
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South Africa’s Cardinal Brislin: Trump cannot silence Pope Leo or the church
Attacking “the sanctity of the church and the papacy, and the deeper moral vision they represent, is not acceptable and cannot be met with silence,” Cardinal Stephen Brislin said.
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Reactions: President Trump lashes out at Pope Leo XIV
In a special America Media editors’ roundtable, Sam Sawyer, S.J., Ashley McKinless and Colleen Dulle break down President Trump’s unprecedented attack on Pope Leo XIV.
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After Trump’s Leo rant, JD Vance says Vatican should ‘stick to matters of morality’
Speaking to Fox News April 13, Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, addressed Trump’s social media post, saying, “We can respect the pope, we certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we’re also going to disagree on substantive questions from time to time.”
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Trump is trying to distract us from Pope Leo’s calls for peace. Don’t take the bait.
If you are outraged—which would be both understandable and justifiable—by President Donald Trump’s social media attack last night on Pope Leo, take a moment to step back and follow the pope’s example rather than taking the president’s bait.
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Pope Leo says he has ‘no fear’ of Trump or preaching the Gospel
Pope Leo XIV said April 13 he has “no fear” of President Donald Trump’s administration in response to the president’s criticism Sunday night on Truth Social.