Elizabeth Bruenig: “Donald Trump’s recent outbursts at the pope— ‘WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,’ he said in one of his Truth Social posts—have renewed questions from observers about the president’s cognitive fitness and his apparently limitless capacity for blasphemy. His attacks also echoed old-fashioned fears about the Vatican as an insidious rival to American power.”“But more than anything, Trump’s post betrayed a gross and fundamental misunderstanding of who the pope is and what Catholics believe he is empowered to do.”