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Since North America remains the world’s - and certainly the West’s – leading superpower, i.e. supreme in the political sphere in terms of both hard and soft power, it is very unlikely that the College of Cardinals will want to elect the Catholic Church’s ultimate spiritual power – i.e. the pope - from the same country,
Republicans Against Trump, ... More than a billion Catholics are still mourning the Pope's death, but Trump and his allies think it's the perfect time to mock their faith. Absolutely despicable."
a group of GOP supporters who don't back the president, wrote in an X post Saturday But imagine the incandescent outrage, the swift condemnation, and the individual and joint protests from the US bishops if this had been done by Joe Biden or Barack Obama."
President Trump flew to Italy to pay his respects for Pope Francis and attend his funeral, and he has been a staunch champion for Catholics and religious liberty.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked to respond to the criticism and said, as quoted by AP As a general rule, I’m fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen,
Vance wrote in a post on X on Saturday responding to a question from Bill Kristol, editor-at-large at The Bulwark, on whether or not Vance was “fine with this disrespect There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President,
Where do you even begin with this?” ... A ‘Pope trump’ would be the first Pope in history unable to recite a single Bible verse, or even recount his favorite part, except for Two Corinthians.”
wrote one user on X, with another person commenting more directly He was clearly joking. Clearly joking,
said Macchia, who is Jewish CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
In mid-February, both Trump and the official White House social media accounts posted a different AI-generated image of the president wearing a crown and captioned Memes depicting Trump as Christ have been and always will be called out as blasphemy. The Pope picture is actually funny. Calm down, folks,
President Trump just posted this on Truth Social. It comes after he told the media this week that he wants to be the next Pope."
A screenshot of Trump's pope post on Truth Social was shared on X by conservative commentator Laura Loomer who added Well, it's been confirmed that President Trump will also be know a Pope Trump. There was orange smoke seen at the Vatican."
Another X user shared an altered image which appeared to show orange smoke coming out of the Vatican, adding I’d like to be pope. That would be my number one choice."
It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently,
the American leader raged in a post on Truth Social today The constitution of Ukraine says that all the temporarily occupied territories... belong to Ukraine.
But Zelensky has remained steadfast the territory belongs to the Ukrainian people, insisting their 'position is unchanged', adding Reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out, ... Very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results.
We do not know, we just wait for the Lord to tell us,
said Cardinal William Seng Chye Goh, Archbishop of Singapore, seen as one of the more conservative prelates We recognise his achievement but no pope is perfect, no one is able to do everything so we will find the best person to succeed St Peter,
Trump is literally mocking the Christian world with this image he shared, ... And on a day when Catholics are mourning the death of their spiritual leader, Pope Francis.
He'll post himself as Jesus next. The funny thing is the Christian's that support him don't seem to have a problem with this, which is clearly mocking Christianity."