{"id":453164,"date":"2026-04-25T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:08:14","slug":"the-catholic-churchs-key-role-in-breaking-the-left-right-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453164\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Church&#8217;s key role in breaking the left\/right binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>It has been extraordinarily amusing in recent weeks to watch the renewed appreciation of Pope Leo XIV from people who otherwise wouldn\u2019t give the Church the time of day as his (admittedly one-sided) war of words with US President Donald Trump escalated over the war in Iran.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/weak-on-crime-trump-attacks-pope-leo-in-truth-social-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social tirade and social media slander<\/a>, Leo has maintained the, for want of a better way of putting it, \u2018left-coded\u2019 position that peace is better than war, especially what he deems to be an unjustified war. A position that is entirely in keeping with the Catholic Church\u2019s broader thinking on the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been extraordinarily amusing in recent weeks to watch the renewed appreciation of Pope Leo XIV from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,2512,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,790,2515,22267,199688,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-453164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catholic-church","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","21":"tag-the-left","22":"tag-the-right","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116465271301389704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}