Witold Jurasz and Agnieszka Bryc talk about the fierce dispute between the Vatican and the MAGA world, about religion used as a tool of political domination and about the dangerous temptation to build religious states in democratic decorations.
Below is a video of the entire episode.
Why does Leo XIV irritate the right wing more than Francis?
The guest of the program is Tomasz Terlikowski, who explains why the Catholic Church is increasingly distancing itself from right-wing populism, where the vision of Trump as a “catechon” comes from, and why Putin's Russia has become a model of “militant Christianity” for some American conservatives.
The article continues below the video
Does religion still have a spiritual dimension today or is it just a political hammer? And is the Western world really on the threshold of a religious counter-revolution?
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