by Monica Showalter
In reports picked up by left-leaning outlets such as the Daily Beast and New Republic, Vatican-oriented freelance journalist Christopher Hale has tweeted that President Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, has met in a private audience with Pope Leo XIV.
NEW: Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod this morning.
— Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) April 9, 2026
Axelrod was chief strategist for President Obama in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaign.
As I reported last month, there are early talks between Vatican officials and President Obama’s circle about a meeting between…
Axelrod, really?
What kind of message does that send? The pope has declined an offer to visit the U.S. for its 250th anniversary in favor of a trip to visit the illegal migrants on Lampedusa (which might bring him an unexpected round of protests from angry locals sick of being robbed and raped by them) on the grounds that he doesn't want any trip to be political. But meeting the most political of political operatives, an absolute political manipulator and operator like Axelrod, reeks of political plotting. Axelrod doesn't go to the Vatican to chew the fat with the pope and buy souvenir rosaries. What really is this meeting about and why is the pope now openly meddling in U.S. politics? What does he want, other than to oust Trump?
While it's true the pope schedules his meetings in advance, it's simply too strange of timing to think it could be anything but political coming as it has on the heels of a Free Press report which claimed that the Vatican's papal nuncio, or ambassador, had a confrontational meeting at the Pentagon where "Avignon," a state takeover of the Church, was supposedly brought up as happened centuries ago.
Now the pope's meeting with Trump's top opposition, Obama's strategic operative, the guy who engineers Democrat victories?
It looks like the pope is playing politics now, U.S. politics, even though his Vatican and Peruvian citizenship ought to make him irrelevant to U.S. internal and external political matters.
He's been first obliquely, and then more directly complaining about the U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran, calling for an "offramp" for Trump, which was the language others used on Putin earlier in the now-largely ignored Ukraine war, even though a successful U.S.-military operation would free the Iran's nationals to become Christians in a striking instance of the Vatican working against its own interests.
The entire focus (or at least media coverage) of his papacy seems to be on countering the U.S. no matter what it does despite everything else going on in the world.
He's been gradually attempting to micromanage U.S. internal policies as well as foreign policy that the voters (including the majority of Catholic voters) voted for, first obliquely, and then more directly in favor of the actual enemies of the Catholic Church, the party that persecutes the Little Sisters of the Poor for not paying for abortion pills.
After the reported Pentagon spat, which I can't say is true or not, now he's meeting with Axelrod? I wonder what the two of them are talking about. Hale seems to think it's a photo op with Obama ahead of any meeting with President Trump, but if so, big deal, I doubt there will ever be a pope-Trump meeting, and I also doubt that Axelrod would preoccupy himself with something so small. Axelrod is a man focused on taking full power.
The one thing the pope has in common with Axelrod is that both come from Chicago, so the pope seems to have gone down into the Chicago Way with this encounter. Perhaps he is trying to spook Trump and nothing of importance will be discussed.
What the heck would the pope have to say to Axelrod, an avowed atheist from a bona fide communist background that would merit a minute of his papal time? The two do not intersect. While Axelrod is more commonsensical than the Squad arm of Democrat politics, he's also a guy who engineers political elections to win those elections for the left, his latest strategy being the Spanbergerization of the Democrats, running as moderates but governing as extremists.
Axelrod is all in for promoting abortion, euthanasia, socialism, global warming myths and money extraction, high taxation (which reduces charitable and religious giving), state power to persecute religions, as well as doing what the European Union, Soros, and United Nations dictate to preserve the globalist status quo, reducing the U.S. standard of living and ultimately forcing us to eat bugs, even as a party elite remains intact and untouched by such privations. He's all in for appeasing foreign dictators to end American power as we know it, which is what the Iran deal and Obama's 'wave' with Cuba's military dictator indicate. That a weak America taking orders from eurotrash is his idea of a good thing.
Chris is a nice guy and I like him personally, but he's very left-wing, and there are many occasions in which his analysis and sometimes information from Vatican sources has been wrong. I always read his reports with caution. But for a long time he has held the view that Pope Leo was elected to confront President Trump. While I've always thought of that as lefty wishful thinking, a meeting like this suggests he could be right, even though as Catholics, we expect our pope to stay out of political matters and focus on salvation of souls.
If he's right, what a shame. I hope he's wildly wrong. We don't need a pope who treats the Church and his papacy like an activist NGO.
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