Luma Simms is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; her essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications including National Affairs, Law and Liberty, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, Public Discourse, the Institute for Family Studies, and others.

The Real Target In This Vatican Drama Isn’t Rome. It’s American Voters.

On April 6, The Free Press ran a story claiming the Pentagon summoned the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to a meeting, and invoked the Avignon Papacy, threatening the Vatican. The Department of War, Ambassador Brian Burch, and the Vatican all put out statements saying the “threatening” meeting story is completely untrue. DNC progressive Catholic operative Christopher Hale, however, spent all week pushing and amplifying the story even after it was shown to be false.

On April 9, Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod, the former senior advisor to President Obama. Then, on April 10, the Pope made a clearly pacifist, anti-war statement aimed at the Trump administration. To cap it all off, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” episode on Sunday, April 12, with three of the most liberal cardinals in the American Catholic Church who spoke in opposition to the Iran war and against the deportation of illegal aliens. Meanwhile, social media erupted with provocative arguments over who is to blame for America’s moral and spiritual collapse: Catholics or Protestants?

Read the full column at the Daily Wire.

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