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Trump Attacks Pope Leo XIV - Here's What Happened
Cross Examined with Michael Lofton | 13.IV.2026
https://www.youtube.com/live/A-Gl1Us9LzA

"and I don't want a pope who criticizes the president of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected in a landslide to do"

What was a certain man who should have remained a painter saying about German elections and Mit brennender Sorge?

"Leo XIV" is arguably not the Pope, unlike Pius XI, but at least he gets it that a pope can judge a politician, like in a pretty harsh way Pope Pius V did with Elisabeth Tudor (or Boleyn, as some have termed her).

Actually, the question need not be rhetorical.

On EWTN, I found this* on what happened after Mit brennender Sorge:

It was said that, in fact, Hitler was so beside himself that for three days he did not want to see or receive anyone.

So, he kind of had the decency, as kind of part still Catholic, to remain silent.

9:55 Did Hitler ever try to tell Pope Pius XII "if I hadn't been here, they would not have taken a former nuntio to Germany"?

I don't think so.

But some people in the business world are prone to overdoing the concept of gratitude, as it applies to men, very vastly.

I mean, Putin once showed incompetence about Indonesian pork consumption (there is a Christian minority and there are tourists).

Trump's showing some less than full competence about what the job of a Pope is.

* The Encyclical That Infuriated Hitler
ROME, 4 APRIL 2007 (ZENIT)
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/encyclical-that-infuriated-hitler-2844