Vatican City: Pope Francis' allies say American hard-line Catholics “not too far apart” from Islamist jihadists


Some experts have interpreted the article as a call from Pope Francis himself for the church to dissociate itself from the US administration’s right-wing policies

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By Michael Day | August 3rd 2017

Two leading theologians close to Pope Francis have said that American evangelicals and hard-line Catholics have a worldview that is “not too far apart’’ from jihadists.

Their article in the journal Civilta’ Cattolica, which has outraged religious conservatives in the US,  goes on to accuse right-wing Catholics and Christians of making an unholy pact with President Trump, and of deepening political polarisation in the United States.

Some experts have interpreted the article as a call from Pope Francis himself for the church to dissociate itself from the US administration’s right-wing policies on everything from climate change to migration. Pope Francis has previously hit out at  President Donald Trump’s proposals to build a wall between Mexico and the US – a policy the pontiff had said was not Christian.
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