Chicago Mayor Johnson hopes to enlist pope in reparations fight after he apologized for ‘scourge of slavery’
President Trump is criticizing Pope Leo XIV for hosting Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson at the Vatican.
“Someone should explain to the pope that the mayor of Chicago is useless,” Trump wrote after photos emerged of the meeting between the Chicago-born pope and the mayor.
Trump’s comment also came after months of tension between the president and the pontiff over Pope Leo’s criticism of the administration’s hard-line immigration policies and foreign policy.
Woke Pope Leo Apologizes for Slavery, Claims Church Played Role in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Vatican is now apologizing for events that occurred centuries before anyone alive today was born.
Pope Leo XIV formally apologized on Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in “legitimizing” slavery, according to the Associated Press.
The apology reportedly appeared in Leo’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which mostly focused on artificial intelligence.
“It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many,” Leo wrote.
It was the first-ever official papal apology, and it assigned blame to the Vatican for the slave trade.
“For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon,” the holy father added.
He called the church’s record on slavery “a wound in Christian memory.”
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