{"id":72616,"date":"2026-04-25T07:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/counter-to-the-message-of-jesus-progressive-christians-stake-a-claim-to-their-religion-amid-trump-pope-feud\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:59:55","slug":"counter-to-the-message-of-jesus-progressive-christians-stake-a-claim-to-their-religion-amid-trump-pope-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/counter-to-the-message-of-jesus-progressive-christians-stake-a-claim-to-their-religion-amid-trump-pope-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Counter to the message of Jesus\u2019: progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians and Catholics are organizing around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Trump and Hegseth<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has long tried to wrap itself in Christianity, with Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, invoking warfare \u201cin the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ\u201d. Trump even recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/18\/donald-trump-popularity-iran-christianity-economy'\">posted an AI image of himself <\/a>as a Christ-like figure (later claiming he thought it was a doctor) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/trump-bible-passage-oval-office\">streamed himself reading the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But in reality, faith leaders have been some of the loudest and most consistent voices organizing against the administration\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/progressive-christians-religion-trump-pope\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians and Catholics are organizing around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Trump and Hegseth The Trump administration has long tried to wrap itself in Christianity, with Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, invoking warfare \u201cin the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ\u201d. Trump even recently posted an AI &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Counter to the message of Jesus\u2019: progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/counter-to-the-message-of-jesus-progressive-christians-stake-a-claim-to-their-religion-amid-trump-pope-feud\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Counter to the message of Jesus\u2019: progressive Christians stake a claim to their religion amid Trump-pope feud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}