President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV – along with his sharing of an imageon social media depicting him as a Jesus Christ-like figure – has soured Catholics nationwide, many of whom say that Trump’s quarrel with the head of the Catholic Church was beyond defensible.

“The reactions were definitely like, you know, who would do something like that?” said Max D’Amore, a student at Villanova University, a private Catholic research institution in Pennsylvania, speaking wi