
TOI correspondent from Washington: In a Netflix-era episode of Church vs State, US President Donald Trump, fresh from watching a cage fight in Miami over the weekend, has waded into a brawl with a 2,000-year-old institution that has outlived empires, plagues, and—until now—social media.
In a blistering post that read like a theological review on Rotten Tomatoes, the MAGA boss, churning politics with religion, declared that the US born Pope Leo XIV is “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy,” before accusing the Pontiff of being an Obama Sympathizer and a "political hitman" for the Radical Left.