Has any prior president ever repeatedly, publicly falsely accused a pope of taking positions antithetical to Catholic teaching?
It would be hard to overstate how unprecedented this situation is. It’s hard just to fathom it.
At least four times in recent weeks, President Donald Trump has implied or outright stated that Pope Leo XIV approved of Iran having a nuclear weapon. “The pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon,” he claimed in an April 16 exchange with a reporter. No such statement, needless to say, existed, and this false claim was immediately debunked both by Catholic sources and by a mainstream media outlets.
Yesterday, May 5th, Trump doubled down on his preposterous falsehood:
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