Archbishop Coakley’s Response to President Trump’s Social Media Post on Pope Leo XIV

| 04/13/2026

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The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a brief response to a social media post by President Trump on Sunday evenin

U.S. President Donald Trump and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are pictured in a combination photo. In an April 7 statement, Archbishop Coakley said Trump's "threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified," and called on Trump "to step back from the precipice."
U.S. President Donald Trump and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are pictured in a combination photo. In an April 7 statement, Archbishop Coakley said Trump's "threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified," and called on Trump "to step back from the precipice." (OSV News photo/Evan Vucci, Reuters/Bob Roller)

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a brief response to a social media post by President Trump on Sunday evening. 

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.”

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