When gossip is passed from generation to generation, it is official history; as the origin of the current dispute between Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump. This began long before they were born and, like all things about great men who drive great historical transformations, it has deep personal roots.
Henry VIII, the king of England, like President Donald Trump, had “bad luck” with women. They, like the character in the Rolling Stones song, did not find satisfaction: “but they try, but they try.” Trying, Enrique was married six times, and Trump, three.
When the king wanted to leave the queen, he accused her of adultery, took an ax and beheaded her. Tragic end to that love story, without divorce or lawyers earning 33% plus “legal costs.” When Henry wanted to get rid of his queen, Catherine of Aragon, he couldn’t decapitate her, he would be in serious trouble. She was the daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel la Católica, the richest and most powerful European crown at the time.
The Roman Catholic Church decided not to divorce the king, the priests have never married, they have no empathy. Solving this problem, in 1534 Henry VIII founded the Anglican Church, he appointed himself “Anglican Pope”, his Church divorced him.
In 2002, the US government wanted to arrest Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, of Boston, for covering up pedophile priests, he fled to the Vatican, where he died in 2017. The dispute between the Pope and Trump is the latest chapter in this history of conflicts between both parties.
Trump will continue to be Trump, yesterday he dressed as the Pope, today as Jesus Christ, tomorrow only God knows. Pope Leo XIV rode a motoconcho through La Vega, he has so much street wisdom, he projects meekness, he chooses his battles, he will not fight with Trump, he said it.
The United States, the most powerful nation in the West, never attempted to extradite Cardinal Law. The Roman Catholic Church, the oldest institution in the West will not fight with Washington. This political distraction at the highest level will end in “holy peace.”
