This is President Donald Trump’s comedy of the three chairs which were reduced to two so that, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Trump could sit on one and Vladimir Zelensky on the other. Pope Leo XIV’s first Easter address called for peace and dialogue in a time of war in the Middle East. He got the dialogue, all right — in the form of an ongoing back and forth with the White House over who gets to weigh in on politics and whether war can be righteous. Trump is not the first president to be accused of mocking the Catholic faith. Former US President Joe Biden, a Catholic, caused outrage a year ago when he made the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion access rally in Florida. A simple chair pull by Donald Trump for Benjamin Netanyahu has ignited a fierce online debate. Was it a subtle power move or an act of servitude? Trump says he ‘had nothing to do with’ apparent AI-generated pope image he posted online. The image was posted on Trump’s and the White House’s social media accounts, sparking criticism from Catholics at home and abroad. The ministry of Peter is distinguished precisely by this self-sacrificing love, because the Church of Rome presides in charity, and its true authority is the charity of Christ.