Shortly after the election of Pope Leo XIV, New York Times columnist David French wrote what many were already thinking: Donald Trump is no longer the most important American in the world. The selection of the first U.S.-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost, after the death of Pope Francis was the Catholic news story of the year. Yet the two leaders couldn’t be more different from each other, in both temperament and priorities.
The second-most-important American leader seems intent on implementing policies that go against nearly every Catholic moral priority, including on the reproductive issues that likely prompted many conservative Catholics to vote for him. In contrast, the pope from Chicago has put Catholic social teaching front and center.
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