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When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected on Thursday as Pope, President Trump quickly offered the first Pontiff in the US in the US.
“It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American pope,” said Mr. Trump in one rack. “Some excitement.”
But some of the most avid followers of Mr. Trump does not seem to feel the excitement.
Almost immediately after Cardinal Prevost, a resident of the Chicago area who served for decades in Peru, emerged from the conclave While the new pope and the name Leo XIV took, leaders of the Maga movement began to throw him as an enemy.
Laura Loomer, an extreme right-wing activist who has a significant influence with Mr. Trump, wrote on social media on Thursday That Leo’s style would be similar to that of his predecessor, Pope Francis, whom she described as “Anti-Trump, Anti-Maga, pro-open boundaries and a total Marxist.”
“Catholics have nothing good to look forward to,” she wrote. “Just a Marxist doll in the Vatican again.”
And on Friday guests on Steve Bannon’s popular right -wing “War cream” podcast Stacked, Leo Casting as a progressive figure and a continuation of Francis, a pronounced voice for migrants who was that Often at odds with Mr. Trump.
Mr Bannon, one of the best allies of the president, told the BBC That the selection was “kind of stunning”, and added that there would be “certainly friction” between the new pope and Mr. Trump.
Few predicted that Cardinal would be chosen, but Mr Bannon was perhaps less astonished than he went. In April he said “Piers Morgan uncensored” That he believed that the cardinal “unfortunately” became pope rather than observers. He mentioned Leo’s ideological proximity with Francis and his connections with Latin -America.
Much of the personal politics of Leo is unclear. Over the years he has Voted in Illinois Several times, bringing an absent mood in last year’s presidential elections and voting in three Republican pre -elections since 2012, according to records by Will County, which is outside of Chicago.
Records do not show him in that time frame in democratic primaries. Illinois has open primary elections and voters there does not declare a party if they register to vote.
But the new pope had apparently unrest pronounced With the immigration platform of Mr. Trump. A social media account under his name posted an article in February that Vice President JD Vance had misinterpreted the Christian doctrine to support the massive deportation effort of Mr Trump. (The New York Times did not independently check whether he has carried out the account.)
Leo’s brother John Prevost told the New York Times On Thursday he knew ‘for a fact’ that the new pope ‘was not happy with what is going on with immigration’.
Leo has spoken about other issues that are neatly in accordance with those of many American social conservatives. In a speech of 2012 to bishops, he expressed his concern about what he called and derived aspects of modern culture that “sympathy for beliefs and practices are at odds with the gospel.”
Francis, that died two weeks agoHad a tense relationship with conservative American Catholics, who felt marginalized during his 12-year-old pontificate.
Francis sometimes spoke strongly against Mr. Trump. During the first term of Mr. Trump, Francis said a policy to separate migrant children From their parents on the border between the US and Mexico was ‘immoral’. And he warned those who close boundaries “are prisoners of the walls they build. “
Joan Francis Plum, a cousin of Leo’s, said on Thursday in an interview that the new Pope would be ‘as Francis’.
“I think Francis called him to the Vatican – because they were similar,” she said about her cousin, he was elevated to an influential Vatican office in 2023. “He was chosen by him. He is very broad -minded and just loving.”
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