{"id":24429,"date":"2025-05-09T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xiv-first-american-pontiff-will-face-a-fractured-american-church\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:20:39","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-first-american-pontiff-will-face-a-fractured-american-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-xiv-first-american-pontiff-will-face-a-fractured-american-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV, First American Pontiff, Will Face a Fractured American Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last several months for American Catholics have been a story about the ascent of the Catholic right. In January, a parade of right-wing Catholic power began streaming into President Trump\u2019s remade Washington. Just weeks later came the hospitalization and decline of Pope Francis, who often seemed to stand alone <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/us\/pope-christians.html\" title=\"\">in offering a different vision<\/a> of global Christian influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic in the new conservative style, was one of the last people to see Pope Francis alive, a brief meeting between representatives of two contrasting visions for Catholic values in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then came the stunning arrival on Thursday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/05\/08\/world\/pope-conclave-news\" title=\"\">of a new pope<\/a>: an American, Chicago-born \u2014 and a prelate whose priorities for the church seemed to place him in the mold of Francis. He is potentially another countervailing voice against the country\u2019s newly powerful strain of right-leaning Catholics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The elevation of Robert Francis Prevost, known to some as Bob, to the throne of St. Peter electrified Catholics across his home country on Thursday afternoon. But the first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now the new pope, Leo XIV, faces the task not just of shepherding the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics, but of unifying a fractured American church where the church hierarchy, ordinary Catholics, an influential right-wing Catholic media ecosystem and Catholic power in Washington are often at odds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pope assumes the role at a moment of extraordinary muscle and visibility for a certain kind of Catholicism in American public life. More than a third of the members of President Trump\u2019s cabinet are Catholic. So are two-thirds of the Supreme Court, which has issued a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-religion.html\" title=\"\">remarkable run of rulings<\/a> expressing an emphatic vision of religious liberty, often favorable to Christian interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The second Catholic president in the nation\u2019s history, Joseph R. Biden Jr., left office just months ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rise of a new right-wing Catholicism in Mr. Trump\u2019s Washington contrasts with a broader decline of the presence of the church in American life. Waves of Catholics left the church following revelations of widespread sexual abuse by clergy, and American culture overall has become more secular. Today, about 20 percent of Americans describe themselves as Catholic, a share that has remained stable over the past decade, according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Vance, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/25\/us\/jd-vance-catholic-church-conversion.html\" title=\"\">who converted<\/a> to the faith in 2019, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1920550545061810261\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted his well-wishes<\/a> to the new pontiff online on Thursday afternoon. \u201cCongratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election!\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-pope-photo-ai.html\" title=\"\">who denied posting an image<\/a> of himself as the pope on his own account on his own Truth Social platform this week, told reporters on Thursday that the selection was \u201csuch an honor for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pope Francis clashed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/trump-pope-francis.html\" title=\"\">with Mr. Trump<\/a>, most recently and fervently over immigration. In February, just months before he died, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/trump-pope-francis.html\" title=\"\">the pope harshly criticized Mr. Trump\u2019s policy<\/a> of mass deportations in an open letter to American bishops, calling it a violation of the \u201cdignity of many men and women, and of entire families.\u201d The letter was also seen as an indirect message to other members of the administration, including Mr. Vance, who used a Catholic theological concept to defend the administration\u2019s crackdown on immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pope Leo is seen as likely to share Pope Francis\u2019 priorities on a range of social issues. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/drprevost\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">An X account<\/a> that appeared to belong to the new pope reposted a message in April critical of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cillicit deportation\u201d of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us\/politics\/jd-vance-pope-leo-xiv.html\" title=\"\">The same account has also shared several articles<\/a> critical of Mr. Vance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis pope is clearly going to keep speaking out of for justice, for peace, refugees, the poor and the hungry,\u201d the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a longtime Vatican analyst, said. \u201cIf this gets him in trouble with the Trump White House, so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday night, some right-wing Catholic media outlets were beginning to express skepticism of Pope Leo\u2019s orthodoxy. The website LifeSiteNews published \u201c5 worrying things you need to know about Leo XIV,\u201d written by its editor in chief. The list included the new pope\u2019s criticisms of Mr. Trump\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Catholic doctrine does not map neatly onto American political disputes, and it\u2019s not clear whether Pope Leo will have his predecessor\u2019s appetite for sparring. Inserting himself directly into the American political landscape could be thornier for an American.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For some American Catholics, his selection was a sign that the church here is entering maturity. The country is approaching its 250th birthday next year, but the Catholic Church claims an age about 1,750 years older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States was still considered mission territory for the Catholic Church as recently as the beginning of the 20th century, said Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. \u201cA pope from the U.S. is in some ways a sign of our coming into our own in global Catholicism,\u201d she wrote in an email, calling his election \u201can extraordinary gift\u201d to the life of the American church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The American church is now the fourth largest in the world, behind those in Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines. The U.S. is the first among them to birth a pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For leaders of Catholic institutions and ministries across the country, the selection was a moment of optimism for their church and their country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful news, it\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Curtis Martin, founder of the American-based Catholic ministry FOCUS, about the selection of an American pope. The name feels auspicious to him, too: Mr. Martin named one of his sons after the turn-of-the-century Pope Leo XIII, who was born in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Martin said he saw Pope Francis as a leader who excelled at listening, especially to those who did not understand the church or agree with its teachings. He hopes Pope Leo will be able to take the next step, listening but also speaking more directly about church teachings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat hasn\u2019t happened yet is the opportunity to enter into a real dialogue,\u201d Mr. Martin said. \u201cThe church has maybe never listened better than it did under Pope Francis, but now it\u2019s an opportunity to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added, \u201cI think Pope Leo might be able to lead that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Rev. Robert A. Dowd, the president of the University of Notre Dame, said that he hoped that Leo\u2019s election could prove \u201ca uniting moment\u201d for the American church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s an American with a global perspective, but he\u2019s an American,\u201d Father Dowd said. \u201cHe understands, I think, the state of the church here in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As significant as the moment felt to many American Catholics, the new American pope has spent much of his adult life overseas, in Peru and Italy. Pope Francis, who was born in Argentina, never returned to his own home country as pope, and he visited the United States only once in his 12-year papacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leaders of the American church, who are generally more conservative than much of the global church, expressed their welcome and emphasized that the new pope now belongs to the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCertainly, we rejoice that a son of this nation has been chosen by the cardinals, but we recognize that he now belongs to all Catholics and to all people of good will,\u201d Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement. \u201cHis words advocating peace, unity, and missionary activity already indicate a path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alan Blinder<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/09\/us\/pope-leo-xiv-american-church.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last several months for American Catholics have been a story about the ascent of the Catholic right. 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