{"id":1865,"date":"2026-06-18T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:07:37","slug":"more-republican-catholics-choose-trump-over-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"More Republican Catholics choose Trump over the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new poll from the Pew Research Center found that not only do more Republican Catholics side with President Donald Trump over the Pope, but their numbers are growing.<\/p>\n

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In the poll<\/u> released Thursday, it was revealed that 39 percent of Catholics who identify as or lean Republican think Pope Leo XIV has been \u201ctoo critical of the Trump administration,\u201d while just 32 percent think President Donald Trump has been \u201ctoo critical of Leo.\u201d 28 percent agreed both that \u201cLeo has been too critical of Trump but Trump hasn\u2019t been too critical of Leo,\u201d while only 21 percent said \u201cTrump has been too critical of Leo but Leo hasn\u2019t been too critical of Trump.\u201d In other words, Trump has a roughly 7 percent advantage. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the same poll showed that conservative Catholic unfavorability toward the Pontiff is on the rise. When the same poll was taken in August 2025, the Pope was deemed unfavorable by a mere 6 percent. Today, that\u2019s up to 22 percent as his favorability has sunk from 84 percent to 72 percent. <\/p>\n

According to Pew, \u201cThe survey was conducted from May 26 to June 1, in the wake of public tension between Leo and President Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran and other matters. In April, Leo spoke out against war and blamed it on unnamed leaders having a ‘delusion of omnipotence.’ Trump criticized Leo on social media, saying the pope was ‘WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.'”<\/p>\n

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While Republican Catholics tend to side with Trump, that opinion did not reflect with Catholics as a whole, particularly Democrats. As Pew explains, \u201cU.S. Catholics are split. While 19 percent say Leo has been too critical of the Trump administration, 16 percent say he hasn\u2019t been critical enough. Another 35 percent say Leo is striking the right balance, and 30 percent say they are not sure, have no opinion or have never heard of Leo. By contrast, when asked about Trump\u2019s approach to Pope Leo, far more Catholics say Trump has been too critical of Leo (51 percent) than say he hasn\u2019t been critical enough (4 percent) or is striking the right balance (14 percent).\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, the Pope has a 78 approval rating among all Catholics. That number is largely driven by Catholic Democrats and independents who lean Democrat, who are far more likely to say Trump has been too critical of Pope Leo than say Leo has been too critical of Trump (70 percent vs. 3 percent)… The balance of opinion among Catholic Democrats is fairly one-sided: 68 percent say Trump has been too critical of Leo but that Leo hasn\u2019t been overly critical of Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poll comes out amidst a surprising shift in tone in Pope-Trump relations. Following news of the peace deal with Iran, Leo posted<\/u>, \u201cI welcome with satisfaction the reaching of an agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, which will be signed on Friday, as an encouraging result of patient work in dialogue and negotiation. I hope that the agreement may help strengthen mutual trust, security, and stability in the Middle East, promoting paths of dialogue and cooperation among peoples.\u201d Trump shared the Pope\u2019s statement to Truth Social without comment. <\/p>\n

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A new poll from the Pew Research Center found that not only do more Republican Catholics side with President Donald Trump over the Pope, but their numbers are growing.In the poll released Thursday, it was revealed that 39 percent of Catholics who identify as or lean Republican think Pope Leo XIV has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMore Republican Catholics choose Trump over the Pope - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1865\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Republican Catholics choose Trump over the Pope - 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