A growing share of Republican Catholics in the United States now believe the Vatican is too critical of Donald Trump, with a new Pew Research Center poll showing 39% hold that view following a public clash between the former president and Pope Leo XIV over Iran and immigration.
According to Irish Star, a survey conducted between 26 May and 1 June captured opinion in the immediate aftermath of an unusually direct exchange between the American-born pontiff and Trump. The row, which played out across interviews and social media, centred on US foreign policy and migration, but has since spilled into something broader: a test of political loyalty within the Catholic electorate.
