Catholic Leaders Recoil from Trump’s Pope Post

As Catholic cardinals prepare to choose a successor to Pope Francis, church leaders, politicians and pundits blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for sharing an AI-generated image of himself on a throne in the cassock and miter of the pontiff.

“It’s sad both for the White House and for the president,” Cardinal Anders Arborelius, the bishop of Stockholm, told The Washington Post. “I mean, he makes themselves ridiculous, right?”

“This is an image that offends believers, insults institutions and shows that the leader of the global right enjoys being a clown,” former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi wrote in a social media post Saturday.

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