The View from Here

Beloved by young American Catholics, Pope Leo offers something that Trump never will—peace of mind

By Carolina de Armas

Heaven help us if Trump ever learns the old anti-Catholic slur “Papist,” because he’ll start hurling it at everyone who rushed to Pope Leo’s defense this week. “Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the radical left, and focus on being a great pope, not a politician,” Trump wrote, reacting to the Pontiff’s subtle but ongoing criticisms of his foreign policy. He doubled down hours later, posting an A.I.-generated, Christ-like image of his orange likeness draped in white and red robes, bathed in divine light.

The backlash came almost immediately, from the likes of Stephen Colbert (Papist!), Maria Shriver (Papist!), Italian prime minister READ ON