Trump, «Pope Leo is endangering many Catholics» | EUROtoday

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The Pope is placing many Catholics and many individuals in peril”. This was stated by American President Donald Trump on the Salem News broadcaster, two days after the visit of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Vatican to ‘mend things’ after the heavy attacks on Prevost in recent days. Leo XIV “prefers to speak about how it’s acceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, I do not suppose it is a good factor”, added Trump.

These words come after the very harsh declarations of the US president against the Pontiff, especially for the war in Iran but not only. And 48 hours after the visit of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Pontiff, organized precisely to mend things” with the Pope after Donald Trump’s heavy insults to Leo

“At this moment Marco Rubio is certainly the most reliable interlocutor for the Holy See”. Thus Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, interviewed by Corriere della sera. “The United States cannot be against the Pope and the Vatican, a composition is necessary. It is also a question of prudence, in the USA there are more than fifty million Catholics who will certainly not like the attacks on the Pope. Politicians must be more diplomatic, more reasonable”, he added.

“Trump had an emotional reaction, so to speak, but now he should look at things with greater rationality. The position of the Church is very clear in recalling the superior values ​​of peace, beyond politics and above it. Of course, the USA is a great democracy and a military power, and can feel it has a role for peace, the responsibility of containing authoritarian and dangerous regimes. But the aim – he underlines – does not justify all the means”.