Co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla of the Alternative for Germany party hold a press conference in Berlin Sept. 2, 2024, after state elections in the Saxony and Thuringia regions of eastern Germany. (OSV News/Lisi Niesner, Reuters) Many of the far-right’s views on Christian teaching and the place and role of Christian faith in public life are not an “authentic expression of Christianity,” Pope Leo XIV said last week. The pontiff was answering a question from Ludwig Ring-Eifel of KNA, a major German Catholic newspaper, during the in-flight press conference en route…
