(CNN) Two close confidants of Pope Francis have written an article in a Jesuit journal that strongly criticizes some American religious supporters of President Donald Trump for their fundamentalist views, which the authors say demonize others and create fear and hatred.
The article, in the Vatican-reviewed journal La Civiltà Cattolica, says some American evangelicals and Catholics have become a “community of combatants” who seek to impose a “xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations.”
Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and pastor Marcelo Figueroa, editor-in-chief of the Argentinian edition of L’Osservatore Romano, in an article titled, “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the USA: A surprising ecumenism,” take “value voters” to task for wanting religion to influence politics in what the authors call a “nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state.”
