‘Disrespectful And Violent’: Mar-A-Lago’s Bishop Takes On Trump’s Not-So-Holy Pope Attacks | EUROtoday

A Catholic chief who oversees an space that features Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property has slammed the president over his feud with Pope Leo XIV.

Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez — who heads the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida — wrote in a put up to social media final week that the diocese “stands firmly with the Holy Father” and “strongly rejects the disrespectful and violent attacks” that Trump had directed towards him, per a Google translation.

The bishop’s message goes on to state that the assaults “constitute a grave violation of the religious freedom enshrined” within the U.S. Constitution and, “as such, harm the rights of the American Catholic faithful.”

The same message, shared by Catholic commentator and Democratic operative Christopher Hale in a put up to X, concluded with Rodríguez asking folks to hope for Leo’s security.

The message was shared throughout Sunday mass, per Hale.

Rodríguez has beforehand served at church buildings in Brooklyn and Queens, not removed from Trump’s childhood residence in New York City’s Jamaica Estates neighborhood.

After Leo appointed Rodríguez to function bishop of Palm Beach late final 12 months, he criticized the president’s immigration coverage, telling The Associated Press that he needs to help Trump as “we believe that we can do better.”

He famous that the administration shouldn’t be targeted on deporting youngsters who’ve “never committed any crime.”

“Migrants are not to be demonized … Good migrant people that are here to work hard for their families — they share many of our core values,” mentioned Rodríguez, whose congregation at Our Lady of Sorrows church in Queens consists largely of migrants.

“They’re to be not to be rejected and treated harshly but instead, they’re to be treated respectfully and with dignity. So, that’s the idea, and Pope Leo is backing us up in this.”

The bishop joins quite a few critics within the Catholic neighborhood and past who’ve taken on Trump over his feud with the primary American-born pontiff.

The pope seemingly upset Trump together with his requires peace amid the president’s unpopular Iran battle. Trump’s unhinged assault on his Truth Social platform final week led the pope to vow that he’ll proceed to “speak out loudly against war.”

On Saturday, the pope instructed reporters that it’s not in his “interest at all” to debate Trump and, after declaring that he had “no fear” of the president final week, urged that the media has misinterpreted a few of his remarks since.