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Pope Leo Says German Far Right’s Views on Christianity ‘Not Authentic’

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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 on Monday. 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 to Rome from France. Ring-Eifel asked Leo about his views on the steady decline of the Catholic Church in Germ…

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Salvini and Vannacci but also Le Pen, AfD, and even the Americans Vance and Hegseth: the rhetoric of the right and the extreme right has adapted religion to make it a topic to build walls, exclude and marginalize ideas or people who think otherwise. According to the Pope, with Christianity they have really little to do with it.

·Italy
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Pope Leo XIV said on Monday (28), in collective during the return flight from Metz, France, to Rome, that the growth of extreme right-wing groups in Europe does not represent an authentic expression of Christianity. The statement came in answer to the question about the fall in the number of faithful in Germany and [...]

The pontiff does not allow himself to be manipulated by those who use the Christian roots as a political-identitarian message. Prevost answered the question on the extreme right: "It is not an authentic expression of Christianity. The values of the gospel do not concern hatred and division but understanding and compassion."

·Rome, Italy
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On the papal plane, Pope defends Gospel values and criticizes association between extreme right and religion

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