'Nationalism on steroids:' Trump, Catholics battle over morality
A parishioner prays at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City as President Donald Trump prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, 2025. Eduardo Munoz, REUTERS
By Marc Ramirez – USA TODAY
The rift between President Donald Trump and the Catholic church's leadership is reaching biblical proportions.
This week, the country’s highest-ranking Catholic archbishops took the rare step of issuing a joint statement rebuking the United States’ foreign policy, saying recent and ongoing events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland have called into question the country’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world.”
