U.S. President Donald Trump forcefully criticized Pope Leo late on Sunday in an unusual, direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church that drew immediate rebuke from believers.
The President, in an apparent response to the pope’s growing criticisms of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies, said Leo was “terrible”.
“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Mr. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Catholics on social media quickly lambasted Mr. Trump for attacking the leader of their Church, who they believe is the successor of St. Peter, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles.
-Reuters
