“It does seem to hit a bit different when it is said in English and with a Chicago accent. And so by virtue of being an American Pope, it does seem to have made this particularly contentious between the two.”
That’s the take from Jack Jenkins, national reporter for Religion News Service, on Donald Trump’s bizarre beef with Pope Leo XIV.
Jack joined Edwin Eisendrath on It’s The Democracy, Stupid to discuss all the religious news from this administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth injecting Christian Nationalism into our armed services and touting it as the basis for this war of choice with Iran.
“What Pete Hegseth has done is created his own worship service, and there are posters for it that say SecWar worship service, and Secretary War being how he describes himself. And that is a recurring event that happens monthly, it seems. And that is very unusual,” Jack said.
And we’ve heard about the separation of church and state, but what of the separation of church and space? To find out the answer to that, jump into this latest edition of It’s The Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath and Jack Jenkins, national reporter with Religion News Service, right here on Lincoln Square.
