Fox News is a media outlet that President Trump and his supporters trust.
Allies use Fox News to convey messages to the President about his political battles.
And a Fox News priest just warned Trump about making the wrong move.
President Trump and Pope Leo continue to trade barbs over the war in Iran.
Leo opposes the war and declared that “God does not bless any conflict,” which caused President Trump to fire right back with a post on Truth Social slamming Leo as “weak on foreign policy” and arguing that Leo was wrong to think it was acceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon.
Trump and Leo’s feud over the Iran war is dominating headlines and threatens to create a divide among Catholics, a pillar of Trump’s base, as he won 56 percent of the Catholic vote in 2024.
Theologian and Fox News contributor Jonathan Morris told host Will Cain that Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo were “not healthy” and “not helpful.”
Morris, a former priest who received dispensation from the Church to leave the vocation, told Cain that Trump should just accept the fact that all Popes are anti-war because of the Church’s “just war” doctrine.
Instead, Morris advised Trump to “just say ‘I agree with you, Afghanistan was not a very good thing, Iraq was not a good thing, and I’m only doing this because I have special knowledge that this was an imminent threat to the United States — the United States, and its allies.”
“Instead of getting into, ‘you don’t know what you’re talking about, Pope Leo.’ That’s not healthy. That’s not helpful! It’s not helpful to Trump,” Morris added.
The Catholic Church is growing inside the United States as conversions reached the highest levels in 20 years, with 160,000 adults joining the church in 2025.
Catholics supported Trump in 2024, and Morris argued the President could still defend the war while tailoring his message to appeal to a growing voting bloc that is inclined to support Republicans in 2026.
“The Catholic church is actually booming right now in the United States,” Morris declared while advising Trump that it “would be wise” to craft his message around the argument that “war is a terrible thing” and “I’m only doing this because this was an imminent threat.”
Morris said Trump could contend that “even these cardinals would say, if there is an imminent threat to the United States, the president has not only a right but an obligation to respond also with violence.”
“So I think President Trump would be very wise to say, ‘Hold on. I’m not going to get into a battle between the pope and me,” Morris stated. “Let’s talk about what we want. We all want peace.’ And Pope Leo is saying war is almost always a very, very bad thing. And I would say that President Trump agrees.”
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