‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attenders weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo

That tension between faith and politics typifies the American Catholic experience, perhaps never more so than in the past few weeks. Composite: AP/Shutterstock

Alex Sullivan tended to his five children on the lawn after a traditional Latin mass at the Catholic church of Saint Monica in Duluth, Georgia, and contemplated his faith in the light of God and the shadow of Donald Trump.

Sullivan, a self-described conservative who once staffed a libertarian state representative at the Georgia capitol, described his faith as almost medieval.