- The President of the United States congratulated Cardinal Robert Prevost election at the Pope. “It's a great honor to realize that he is the first American pope,” he wrote
- Experts, however, cool the enthusiasm of the American leader. Vaticanist Michał Kłosowski in an interview with Interia says that this choice is “a very strong voice of opposition to President Donald Trump”
- Robert Prevost has shown many times that he did not approve of the policy of the US president
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The successor of Pope Francis was the American from Chicago Robert Prevost, who took the name Leon XIV. “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has just been appointed Pope. It is a great honor to realize that he is the first American pope,” wrote Donald Trump on his Social Social Social Social Social Social Platform.
New Pope Leon XIV. “He is absolutely not a Trumpist”
Experts, however, pay attention that the President of the United States should not necessarily have reason to be happy. Vaticanist Michał Kłosowski in an interview with Interia says that it is “a very strong voice of opposition to President Donald Trump, who explicitly spoke about another candidate.” “Leon XIV is a religious, Augustian. He is an American, but he is absolutely not a Trumpist, he is located on such a safe anti -trympism,” said Damian Jankowski from the “Więź” magazine in TOK FM. Also the Vaticanist prof. Arkadiusz Stempin assessed in an interview with “Fakt” that “the new pope will be in contrast to politics – especially migration – Donald Trump.”
In turn, dr hab. Radosław Rybkowski from the Institute of American Studies and Polish diaspora studies of the Jagiellonian University assessed in TOK FM that Donald Trump's administration could use the fact that the American became the Pope. “I think that the American authorities may think that this is the best testimony that the decisions and elections made by the Americans and the current administration are the direction in which the world should head” – he said.
However, it should be remembered that Robert Prevost has been criticizing Donald Trump for years. In 2015, he released on the 10th article “The Washington Post” by Archbishop New York Timothy Dolan with criticism of the anti -immigrant rhetoric of Donald Trump.
In 2016, when the presidential campaign, Robert Prevost continued, in which Archbishop Los Angeles José Gomez, wrote about the children's fears that “the government would come and deport their parents.” Prevost commented that America is “better than that.” In 2017, when Trump has already ruled, he passed the post of sister Helen Prejean, in which she supported everyone who was working on the “honest and fair” immigration system.
In February this year, he criticized the statement of the US vice president JD Vance about Christians. In his post he repeated the title of publication, which he made available: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not require us to value our love for others.” Vance in January said Fox News that “in Christianity there is a concept that you love your family first, then a neighbor, then a community, and then fellow citizens, and only then the rest of the world.”
