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Catholics And Protestants Are Going To Need Each Other For What’s Coming

Whatever our theological differences, our common enemy is the radical left, which seeks to persecute Christians of all kinds.

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The theological fault lines that divide America’s 50 million or so Catholics from its roughly 130 million Protestants have been largely set aside when it comes to politics in the Trump era, if only because most practicing Christians in the United States understand they have a common foe in the secular left. When Democrats are openly trying to drive all forms of Christian piety from the public square and impose what amounts to a neopagan morality, it tends to focus one’s attention on the near enemy.

But not this week. President Trump’s diatribe against Pope Leo over the weekend and the ensuing fallout triggered an online fracas between Catholics and Protestants that exposed those fault lines and called into question the durability of the conservative coalition that has twice sent Trump to the White House.

Many Catholics were understandably outraged at Trump’s crude attack on Pope Leo for opposing both the Iran war and his administration’s immigration policies. Catholics of course believe the pope is the spiritual father of the faithful, and to some extent the Catholic reaction against Trump’s attack was an expression of filial piety. But there was also a sense that Trump was simply being unfair. That the leader of the Catholic Church would oppose a war of choice by the United States shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 2003, an aged Pope John Paul II forcefully opposed the Iraq war in terms similar to those Pope Leo has used: “War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity. International law, honest dialogue, solidarity between States, the noble exercise of diplomacy: these are methods worthy of individuals and nations in resolving their differences.”

For their part, many Protestants were rankled by the Vatican’s criticism of the Trump administration and thought Pope Leo had it coming. Some noted, not unfairly, that the pope never seems to speak as sharply or specifically about Democrat presidents who flout Catholic teaching on abortion, gay marriage, and much else. Others simply lambasted the........

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