Bombshell report proves evangelicals dragging Catholics 'deeper into heresy': Jesuit priest

Amid the escalating attacks against Pope Leo XIV by the Trump administration, a Jesuit priest hit back, claiming that the conflict was not the result of the religious leader being "woke," but rather American conservatives "veering deeper into heresy."

President Donald Trump and his allies have been in a feud of sorts with the American Pope since he ascended to the role last spring and began espousing views counter to the MAGA agenda, including respect and dignity for immigrants, as well as opposition to armed conflicts. The feud reached a new high this week after Christopher Hale, a chronicler for Pope Leo XIV, revealed that the Trump administration has effectively threatened to declare war on the Vatican over the pontiff's stances.

"In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture," Hale explained.

Colby is purported to have told the ambassador, "America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."

The ongoing tension between the administration and the Pope has sparked widespread debate, with Trump loyalists claiming the Catholic leader has abandoned the church's ideals in favor of the MAGA movement's much-hated "woke" ideologies, while critics have argued that Leo and his predecessor Pope Francis have merely been correctly embodying the church's teachings about compassion.

Those arguments were embodied on Wednesday evening in a post to X by Jeremy Zipple, a documentary filmmaker and associate pastor for the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in Belize. Zipple responded to a post from another user, also arguing against the "woke" characterization of Pope Leo XIV.

"The Pope is not 'woke,'" user Scott Barber wrote. "What you’re witnessing is a millennia of Catholic social teaching developed over countless encyclicals and the lifework of a vast cloud of witnesses to the love of Christ towards the whole world."

"The Pope is not 'woke' so much as US evangelicalism has been veering deeper into heresy for quite some time now & dragging too many Catholics along with it," Zipple added in his own post. "And the Church is finally saying enough is enough."

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