Will Pope Leo Stand Up to Christian Nationalism?

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When MAGA strategist Steve Bannon told the Economist that Donald Trump was “ a vehicle of divine providence ” and “an instrument of divine will,” he was not being rhetorical. He was articulating a political theology: the claim that a leader, if chosen by God, stands above human law and temporal limits. That idea—once (and still) the claim of monarchs—has reentered modern politics. What a decade ago seemed to be a scatter of populist insurgencies now looks like a global movement bound by shared

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Will Pope Leo Stand Up to Christian Nationalism? http://foreignpolicy.com - 26.11.2025 04:00

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