Looney: Trump’s Attack on the Pope Is ‘an Affront to the Faith of More Than a Billion Catholics’

HARTFORD — Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) today issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s social media attacks on Pope Leo XIV:

“As a lifelong Catholic, I find President Trump’s attack on Pope Leo XIV to be deeply offensive and, frankly, beneath the dignity of the office he holds. The Bishop of Rome does not answer to any political figure, and the suggestion that this Pope owes his position to Donald Trump is an affront to the faith of more than a billion Catholics worldwide. Pope Leo has spoken with moral clarity about the obligations we owe to one another as human beings, including the poor, the vulnerable, and those fleeing violence and persecution. That the President finds this threatening says far more about him than it does about the Holy Father. Catholics in Connecticut and across this country deserve a President who respects their faith, not one who treats the leader of their Church as a political prop to be attacked when he fails to offer sufficient deference.”

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Contact: Kevin Coughlin | kevin.coughlin@cga.ct.gov | 203-710-0193