President Donald Trump holds a press photo opportunity outside St John’s Episcopal Church, near the White House, Washington DC, which had been damaged in local protests, June 22, 2020. He was unable to identify the edition of the Bible that he held; he said it was “just a Bible”. Pope Leo XIV is not simply an “anti-Trump”, says Volker Leppin. In the current issue of Herder-Korrespondenz (August), the professor of church history emphasises that Leo certainly shares the views of the American president. Leppin explained that Cardinal Robert Prevost had been “anything but ‘woke’” on issues of gender: In 2012, he had declared to…
