Italian Catholic intellectuals, Professor Martino Mora and Professor Massimo Viglione, have come out strongly against Leo XIV’s participation in the United States elections last week. Both critiques, which were published on the Aldo Maria Valli blog but also circulated by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on X, warned that the implications of Leo’s participation extended far beyond the elections themselves, and that he represented a radical and deeply problematic redefinition of the role of the papacy in the modern world. Although their arguments differed in emphasis, both professors identified the danger of reducing the Vicar of Christ to an ordinary participant in the political and ideological structures of secular society.

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