MAGA Bishop Demands Trump Apologize to the Pope [View all]
Source: Daily Beast
A MAGA-friendly Catholic bishop on Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission has demanded that the 79-year-old president apologize for his attack on Pope Leo XIV.
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Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota has shown strong MAGA sensibilities since Trump returned to power last year, often parroting far-right talking points, praising Trump’s State of the Union speech, and attending a White House event earlier this month where the president was compared to Christ.
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“The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful,” he said on X. “They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree.”
Previously regarded as a mainstream evangelist with his own PBS Catholicism series, Barron has appeared to drift to the right over the past year. According to Catholic outlet Letters from Leo, he has shown increased public support for Trump by attacking left-wing figures and echoing the Trump administration’s claims of Somali fraud in Minnesota.
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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-bishop-demands-trump-apologize-to-the-pope/
Trump's response:
Q: Will you apologize to Pope Leo?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-13T16:49:03.804Z
TRUMP: No, because Pope Leo said things that are wrong. I think he's very weak on crime.
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