SA’s Cardinal Brislin slams the US president’s assaults on Pope Leo XIV, insisting the papacy isn’t political theatre.
The Catholic Church ought to by no means be a platform for political theatre. It could be handy for political gamers the world over if it had been. Whereas the church doesn’t search quarrels with political leaders, neither can we stay silent when harmless individuals are being killed on immoral grounds, and when political gamers make unhealthy selections. Attacking the sanctity of the church and the papacy, and the deeper ethical imaginative and prescient they signify, can also be not acceptable and can’t be met with silence.
A social media publish and verbal remarks by US President Donald Trump about Pope Leo XIV are a trigger for nice concern. President Trump claimed the Holy Father was “weak on crime”, “horrible for international coverage”, and stated he didn’t “desire a Pope who thinks it is OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon”. Trump posted that the pontiff was “a really liberal particular person” and may “cease catering to the unconventional left”.
Trump additionally advised within the publish that the Holy Father was elected pontiff “as a result of he was an American, they usually thought that might be one of the best ways to cope with President Donald J Trump”.
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