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**Pope Leo XIV Responds After Donald Trump Calls Him “An Insult to Jesus”**
Donald Trump recently took aim at Pope Leo XIV, labeling him “an insult to Jesus” and accusing him of being “beyond woke” while claiming he promotes ideas that challenge traditional values. The remarks were meant to spark political controversy — but instead, they led to one of the most talked-about public responses of the year.
Speaking before a packed gathering at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV addressed the comments with an unusually calm but deeply moving tone.
“The president of the United States just said that I insult Jesus,” he said. “You want to know what truly insults Jesus? Watching the sick and the poor cry out for mercy while wealth and power are placed above human dignity.”
He didn’t stop there. The Holy Father turned the moment into something bigger, speaking directly about poverty, migration, war, and the responsibility of those who govern.
“You want to know what else insults Jesus?” he continued. “Turning away the stranger who comes seeking hope. Separating families. Sending young people into wars that never seem to end, then calling it justice. Hiding painful truths while asking everyone else to remain silent.”
The spiritual leader of more than a billion Catholics, known for his humility, compassion, and unwavering call for peace, transformed the criticism into a powerful reflection on faith and conscience.
“I am not standing before you pretending to be perfect,” Pope Leo XIV said quietly. “There was only one perfect Son of God — and He willingly carried the cross for all of humanity.”
Then came the line that reportedly left the entire hall in complete silence.
“Christ taught us to love one another as He loved us. So tell me — can you imagine hatred in heaven? Can you imagine racism in heaven? Can you imagine children suffering from hunger in heaven? Then why do we continue to accept these things here on Earth?”
What began as an insult quickly became a moment of spiritual (the op cut off at this point)
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I find myself wishing that our President had said, "an insult to Jesus'
Word" instead. It's a subtle difference, in one regard Jesus *is* His
Word, but every Christian has their own unique relationship with Jesus,
He reveals himself a little differently to each of His creations whereas
the canon of scripture is more fixed. It's much easier to see "woke"
deviations from scripture than to make accurate guesses about someone
else's relationship with Jesus.
There are two things I'd like to comment on toward an end of less
division, more reconciliation— But first, the Jesus I know doesn't
really get *insulted.* He does not take offense. The Jesus I know gets
"grieved." Jesus is grieved by the levels of deception that "wokeness"
uses and exploits.
•
The Pope would be right about "Turning away the stranger who comes
seeking hope" being something that grieves Jesus. But Wokeness will try
to portray mass immigration and open borders as a godly virtue when it
is not. Jesus is Lord over Nations. He sets boundaries; this is the
truth of the Tower of Babel and the listing of nations in Genesis 10 and
Deuteronomy 32. Jesus is a nationalist and will inherit a throne to
rule over nations, 𝘤𝘧 Psalm 2:8. The truths are that (a) Illegal
immigration is always illegal, (b) The "hope" of many who crossed our
border illegally is a wicked and destructive hope of greed and
corruption, not a god-given hope for liberty in Christ, and (c) The
"woke" crowd has copied the blueprint the devil used to tempt Jesus in
the wilderness: it takes scripture and twists it. The example I have
seen most frequently involves twisting the the meaning of "sojourner" to
apply to all foreigners. The Israelites were instructed to be kind to
sojourners because they had once been foreigners too; but a sojourner is
a temporary visitor who pays their own way; many of them came as
traders and merchants, did business, and then went home. Correct
exegesis (analysis) of scripture will bring clarity, not division.
• The second point is not even directly addressed in the article, but
is a program that runs in the background of all Western culture: Pope
Leo XIV's papacy aligns with the Catholic Church's general acceptance of
theistic evolution.
To quote: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘯𝘦𝘥
𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴
𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵." 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦: 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤(.)𝘤𝘰𝘮
I have been studying the creation/evolution conflict all my adult life.
The Catholic Church has recognized evolution as consistent with its
teachings since at least 1950, longer than I have been alive. Today, more than half of Protestant churches
agree there is no immanent (fundamental) conflict between faith and
*scientific* evolution. The Coming Great Deception (𝘤𝘧 2
Thessalonians 2) will be a period of widespread spiritual delusion that
will lead many away from God, especially during the last days. I am
convinced that the Adversary has rooted his deception in evolution.
I
will spare you my ever-lengthening list of reasons, but go back and look
at the article again— it speaks to poverty, migration, war, and earthly
troubles. Where is the concern over Jesus' redemptive power? It's not
there because evolution distracts from and leaches faith from Creation
in the image of God. Left unchecked, it blinds the spiritual eyes to
truth.
The article
claims that the President's remarks were meant to spark political
controversy. I disagree; I don't think the President cares a flip about
sparking "political" controversy at this point. He cares deeply about
the lies, the fraud, the theft, and the cheating that has impoverished
patriotic America's middle class, financially, morally, and spiritually.
If you start hearing that ancient aliens "seeded" the human race on Earth instead of the Creator, run! Because the introduction of evolutionary teaching since the mid-1800s has been the long-game to eventually enslave your soul.
