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The Vatican has confirmed that Puerto Rican singer, Bad Bunny, held a private audience with Pope Leo on June 8 at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium, and MAGA did not take the news well.<\/p>\n

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Rich Raho Teacher-Theology Department at DePaul College Prep of the Lake Chicago, made the announcement on X, saying the meeting took place after the pontiff’s gathering with the Madrid Archdiocesan community. The Catholic News Agency similarly confirmed the meeting. But before the end of the day on June 9, MAGA posters were already slamming the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust wonderful, the Pope hanging out with a gang-banger,\u201d claimed one MAGA critic, before his post was buried on X by angry hecklers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait til you find out who Jesus hung out with … also Bad Bunny isn’t a gang banger,\u201d one X user retorted.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a gang-banger, weirdo,\u201d replied another. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chicago democrat pope meets with anybody. He’s wonderful,\u201d insisted another on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Pope Leo would rather have a meeting with Bad Bunny who promotes degeneracy than visiting the African countries where Christians and Catholics are being murdered by Islamists? Ok. Got it,\u201d yowled another critic. <\/p>\n

But the pope has his own standing on X, and his fanbase immediately pounced. <\/p>\n

\u201cSuch a stupid uninformed comment,\u201d one of them barked in reply on X.<\/p>\n

MAGA\u2019s hostility toward Pope Leo stems from the one-sided rivalry President Donald Trump has imposed on the Vatican.<\/p>\n

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In April, Pope Leo XIV chronicler Christopher Hale said he had confirmed that Trump\u2019s Pentagon threatened to declare war on the Vatican. In January, the White House issued a threat behind closed doors at the Pentagon, when Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre \u2014 Pope Leo XIV\u2019s then-ambassador to the United States \u2014 and delivered a lecture, said Hale.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,\u201d Colby and his associates informed the cardinal. \u201cThe Catholic Church had better take its side.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the room temperature rose, Hale said he confirmed that one U.S. official \u201creached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hale said the report confirmed that the Vatican had reason to decline the Trump-Vance White House\u2019s invitation to host Pope Leo XIV for America\u2019s 250th anniversary in 2026 two weeks after the confrontation.<\/p>\n

But the pope remains a much more popular figure than the combative president, and columnists noted Trump appeared to go down in a bitter trample of screeching beneath the wheels of the papacy.<\/p>\n

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