“Our faith is a living thing because it walks hand in hand with doubt, and if there is no doubt, there would be no mystery.” He concludes his homily by asking the cardinals to pray for a pope who doubts, and sins—and asks for forgiveness.
Trump’s rant was a reaction to Leo’s condemnation of his administration’s recent military misadventures, which have included a genocidal threat to wipe out Iran’s civilization. It’s not hard to imagine this catching Leo’s attention. Indeed, during his Palm Sunday homily the pope declared, “God does not listen” to the prayers of those who wage war. His homily was in reference to rhetoric from Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who have claimed the war in Iran has been carried out “under the protection of divine providence.” But as crazy as Trump’s Jesus-like grandeur may be, it was his administration’s reported behavior earlier this year that gives real pause for concern.
Like many threats from the Trump administration, one to appoint a pontiff was not well thought through. Like all holy leaders, popes strive to be living allegories of their faith. Many throughout history have fallen short, but one spiritual responsibility of the pope is to serve as a unifying spiritual figure for over 1.3 billion believers for the Catholic Church. What sets the pope apart from other Christian leaders is that Catholics believe in papal infallibility; that when he speaks ex cathedra on doctrines of faith and morals, his words are inspired directly by God (JD Vance, take notice).
When we think of the Antichrist, we tend to imagine demonic babies from horror films or red-tinted devils with pointed tails and horns. But what’s substantially more frightening than a diabolical figure brandishing a cartoon pitchfork is what Hannah Arendt described as the banality of evil on display in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann was an ordinary man who joined the SS, not because he loved fascism but because he wanted a step up from his job as a door-to-door vacuum salesman. On hearing him testify, Arendt genuinely believed the man responsible for designing the final solution bore no ill will toward Jews. The “banality of evil” she referred to in her book about his trial is the idea that the greatest evils are not committed by psychopaths but by ordinary, unthinking people who conform to systems and fail to critically evaluate their actions.
Unlike the pope on St. Peter’s seat in Rome who surrounds himself with theologians, a Mar-a-Lago pope would be spiritually influenced by those, like Eichmann, who never stopped to consider the meaning behind an authoritarian’s slogans. “Make America Great Again” is all they’d ever need to repeat to themselves to dismiss any shred of guilt when faced with images of bombed-out buildings or ICE officers yanking children from their parents’ arms. Around this Floridian pope’s golden throne would gather tech oligarchs who view introspection as an obstacle to action, along with advocates of AI superiority over human creativity. Here freedom would be defined as the absence of restrictions on desires, rather than the spiritual definition that stresses freedom can be found in virtue.
Although Washington is already infested with the signifiers of Trump’s moral decay, these signs lack a unifying symbol of the MAGA movement. The real value of a Mar-a-Lago pope is that he’d stand as an indelible reminder of everything that students of history will learn that defined the Trump era. The only metaphor better than a billion-dollar ballroom for understanding MAGA’s corrosion of moral authority would be the image of a gilded antipope standing next to Trump in the Oval Office after his ascension to the papacy. In that sense, the pontiff would not merely symbolize spiritual rot but would serve as its most enduring allegory for Trump’s sin of certainty.
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