President Donald Trump is either “not too religious” or “not religious at all,” according to 70% of U.S. adults polled this month by Pew Research Center. “At the same time, many Republicans and white evangelical Protestants say Trump stands up…
Inquiry asked into feds cancelling $11 million grant to Catholic Charities
Democracy Forward wants to know if the Trump administration’s cancellation of an $11 million grant to a Catholic organization resulted from the president’s spat with Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war. Critics of the president believe the award was…
When Trump’s satire hits too close to home for American Christians, Antichrist claims emerge
Is Donald Trump the Antichrist? That question has been on a lot of people’s mind in recent weeks — mainly due to the president’s nonstop social media feed, which included posting an Easter message that used the f-word and a…
The blame for Trump’s messiah complex lies with Franklin Graham
Last week, Donald Trump began to openly challenge and mock the pope and then posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ. Many conservative Catholics and even evangelicals who have wholeheartedly defended and supported Trump were taken aback, but not…
Graham comes to Trump’s defense and Kinzinger calls him out
Once again, Franklin Graham has come to the defense of President Donald Trump, but this time former GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger isn’t having it. After the evangelist and Trump cheerleader posted a defense of Trump sharing an AI-generated image of…
Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the way in repentance?
On Easter Sunday, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote: Everyone in (Trump’s) administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the president and intervene in Trump’s…
Insanity in the name of God
The pronouncements of President Donald Trump these days are so outrageous that it would be a form of parody if it were not for the fact that he is commander in chief of the most powerful army in the world…
‘We need the moral courage to stand where Pope Leo stood this morning’
Posting an image of himself as Jesus, making apocalyptic threats against Iran and criticizing Pope Leo XIV gave faith leaders and political strategists plenty to condemn about President Donald Trump during a recent symposium hosted by Yale Divinity School. Speakers…
Why Orban’s defeat portends bad news for Trump
The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary holds promise for America. In one way, Orban’s demise is a lesson in Political Science 101: Political leaders, even in a quasi-democracy, can’t beat a bad economy. Peter Magyar’s landslide victory in Hungary…
Vatican visitors slam Trump over attacks on the US-born pope’s message of peace
Inappropriate. Ridiculous. Absurd. Visitors to the Vatican on Tuesday had some choice words for U.S. President Donald Trump after his harsh criticism of Pope Leo XIV for his calls to soften the rhetoric of war.
Trump has a ‘God complex,’ Bishop Barber says
President Donald Trump’s Easter promise to send Iranians to hell and his anger at papal criticism of the Iran war shows the president has a God complex, civil rights activist Bishop William Barber said. “Why is the pope’s teaching getting…
Why was the AI image of Trump as Jesus the last straw?
The AI image President Donald Trump posted of himself as Jesus is a sobering reminder not of how much Trump is obsessed with himself, but of how white evangelicals serve a higher power than Trump, and what that higher power…