This, in a word, is repugnant.

If you are a person of faith, particularly Christian faith, it smacks of the idolatry the Protestant denominations denounce the Catholic Church for.

And if you’re a Catholic, it’s theoretically a double whammy, since President Asshole has been spending a good chunk of his weekend slagging the pope.

That slagging the pope business is nothing new since dictators and autocrats, along with kings and emperors, have been attempting to exert pressure on the pope, any given pope, to see things from their point of view.  It’s been going on for centuries.

But Donald J. Trump is not Henry VIII.  This is not 1538.  This is not Pope Paul III or Clement II.  This is Pope Leo IV, none other than Robert Francis Prevost, and this is 2026.  Ironically, the current pope is an American.

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