What a Catholic Church Unafraid of Donald Trump Means to the World

Ms. Emba is a contributing Opinion writer and a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Is America having a Catholic revival? The idea that the United States is seeing a surge in converts to the faith, especially Gen Z-ers, might be more projection than fact. But the reaction to the clashes between Pope Leo XIV and President Trump have made it seem far more plausible — even understandable.

Since February, the president has prosecuted an under-theorized and unpopular war on Iran with increasing unpredictability and genocidal threats, silencing objections through assertions of political power and military force. But over the past several days, criticism from the Bishop of Rome — Leo’s public rebuke of those threats........

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