It was just four months ago that President Donald J. Trump said the quiet part out loud, declaring that his power could be restrained only by his "own morality, his own mind." When Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV on social media Sunday night and posted a picture of himself as a Christlike figure, it wasn't just Catholics who were disgusted. Sadly, this tracks with a man who sells Trump steaks, Trump coins, Trump Bibles and fraudulent Trump degrees. He worships at the altar of Donald J. Trump.
Standing in the breach, Leo and other prominent Catholic leaders have spoken out about Trump's immoral war, his immigration enforcement overreach and his cuts to health care. They are not responding in political terms but moral ones. If the president's reaction is any guide, they have struck a nerve.
