With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics

With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics

(RNS) — On Aug. 2, the U.S. Senate in a party-line vote confirmed Brian Burch as President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Burch is an unusual choice as a liaison to Pope Leo XIV, whom many observers see as continuing the vision of the late Pope Francis and whom Burch, the co-founder of the far-right voter advocacy group Catholic Vote, spent much of the past decade criticizing. Burch has not had much bad to say yet about Leo, choosing d…