Trump, Leo XIV, and the Idolatry of Political Loyalty
National Catholic Register portal reports on the escalating conflict between President Donald Trump and the conciliar figurehead Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), framed as a test of loyalties for American Catholics. The commentary by Father Raymond J. de Souza explores whether partisan allegiance will override Catholic identity in the face of Trump’s blasphemous attacks on the “pope.” The article concludes with one sharp critical sentence: This entire spectacle exposes not a conflict between Church and State, but the tragic spectacle of a post-conciliar “church” that has lost its supernatural identity, now forced to choose between a blasphemous politician and a modernist usurper, both of whom serve the agenda of the world against the immutable rights of Christ the King.







