While Trump blasts the Dems for “anti-Catholic” bias, Pompeo is in a feud with the Vatican.
in the Catholic magazine First Things, saying “it’s clear that the Sino-Vatican agreement has not shielded Catholics from the Party’s depredations” and urged the Catholic Church to take note of its “unique capacity and duty to focus the world’s attention on human rights violations, especially those perpetrated by totalitarian regimes like Beijing’s.”
The official reason for Francis’ refusal to meet with Pompeo is that he does not receive political figures ahead of elections—Pompeo did get a meeting with the Vatican’s secretary of state—but church officialsthat Pompeo published this criticism in a conservative magazine that has been strongly critical of Francis, rather than raising them in meetings with church officials, and suggested he was playing partisan politics.
Pompeo clearly knew his audience in writing the op-ed: This pope is not all that popular with Trump’s evangelical base or with many conservative Catholics. While he didn’t get to meet with Francis in Rome, Pompeo did attend an event on religious freedom organized by Callista Gingrich, the U.S.
Still, Pompeo’s hardly the only one who may be playing politics here. There’s an awful lot of cynicism to go around.
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