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Pope Donald? Trump would hate it

By David Gibson | May 5, 2025

Donald Trump’s papal trolling campaign reached new heights, or hit new lows, depending on your point of view, when he posted on social media an A.I.-generated image of himself as pope, complete with white mitre. “Catholic outrage grows over ‘Pope Trump’ image on official White House media,” ran the headline in the National Catholic Reporter.…

The Rise and Future of the American Religious Right

By Carlos Orbegoso | January 28, 2021

Evangelical Christians wholeheartedly embraced Donald Trump, viewing him as the vessel for achieving their decades-long goal of national political influence.

Niebuhr, Redux

By David Gibson | August 24, 2020

The Protestant theologian’s essay on “the children of light and the children of darkness” can help make sense of Steve Bannon’s arrest and the convention speech of Joe Biden, two Catholics whose stories point to an epic good-versus-evil campaign this fall.