Political Idolatry: Catholics’ Trump Support Despite Moral Failings
EWTN News (February 10, 2026) reports on a Pew Research Center survey claiming Catholic support for President Donald Trump remains stable despite ethical concerns. The data shows 52% of white Catholics approve Trump’s presidency, with 34% confident in his ethics – a decline from 2025 figures. Hispanic Catholic support dropped to 23%. White evangelicals retain strongest support at 69%, though diminished from prior levels.
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Analysis
The article treats Catholicism as a sociological demographic rather than the one true Church founded by Christ (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). Nowhere does it reference:
“The State is bound to protect the Church by its laws… to favor religion, to protect it… and never to stand in the way of the Church’s action” (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, 1885)
By measuring “approval” of a politician through utilitarian polling, the analysis ignores the Regnum Christi – Christ’s eternal kingship over all nations (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The conciliar sect’s obsession with political horseraces exposes its surrender to modernist naturalism, reducing divine faith to tribal partisanship.
Theological Abdication in Statistical Form
Nowhere does EWTN’s coverage condemn Trump’s:
- Public promotion of racism (cited in “related articles”)
- Persistent violations of marital morality
- Endorsement of usurious economic policies condemned by Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum
This silence constitutes complicity in evil (Rom. 1:32). True Catholics recognize that no earthly leader who rejects Christ’s social reign merits support – regardless of transient policy alignments. The article’s focus on decreasing “confidence in Trump’s ethics” (from 39% to 34% among white Catholics) still presumes a fundamentally relativistic framework where moral assessment derives from opinion polls rather than divine law.
Racial Division as Conciliar Dogma
The Pew report’s segmentation into “white” and “Hispanic” Catholics perpetuates the conciliar sect’s schismatic ethnolatry. As Pope St. Pius X warned:
“Religion must be independent of politics… Catholic means universal, not democratic, aristocratic, or republican” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910)
By emphasizing racial demographics, the analysis fuels the neo-church’s false gospel of identity politics – a direct contradiction of Galatians 3:28 (“There is neither Jew nor Greek… for you are all one in Christ Jesus”).
Ethical Cowardice of Conciliar Leadership
The article references U.S. bishops’ weak rebukes of Trump’s racism (“demand apology”) while ignoring their canonical obligation to:
- Denounce public sinners (Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code)
- Forbid Communion to obstinate wrongdoers (Council of Trent, Session XIII, Chapter 7)
- Instruct faithful to reject leaders enabling moral evils (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Condemned Proposition 63)
That 52% of white Catholics still approve Trump demonstrates the total collapse of catechesis within the conciliar sect. When “Catholic” media obsesses over poll fluctuations rather than preaching Christus Rex, it confirms the words of Pius XI:
“When once men recognize… that Christ has been ostracized from public life, that the Church is thwarted by the jealousy of enemies… they will be forced to acknowledge that the cause of the evil is Apostasy from God” (Quas Primas, 1925)
Conclusion: Return to King Christ or Perish
This Pew report documents not political trends, but theological bankruptcy. Until Catholics reject the neo-church’s alignment with earthly powers and restore the Social Reign of Christ the King, such sacrilegious polling will continue masquerading as “Catholic news.” Let true believers heed Pius IX’s condemnation:
“The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” – Condemned Proposition 80 (Syllabus of Errors)
Source:
Catholics’ support for Trump’s agenda has not changed, Pew report says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.02.2026