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Mar-a-Lago’s Catholic Bishop Delivers Sunday Rebuke to Trump
April 20, 2026
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Kevin Lamarque/REUTERSThe bishop of Palm Beach has rebuked Donald Trump for his “disrespectful and violent attacks” on Pope Leo XIV, as outrage over the president’s feud with the pope reaches his own backyard. Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, whom Pope Leo XIV appointed as bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach in December, delivered a scathing rebuke of Trump during Sunday Mass, a week after the president lashed out at the pope in a deranged Truth Social meltdown.
“The Diocese of Palm Beach stands firm with our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, and strongly rejects the disrespectful and violent attacks that Donald J. Trump has directed against the Holy Father,” a projected statement read, according to a photo posted by Catholic commentator Christopher Hale. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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