Meme was offensive and requires apology
To the Editor:
Recently the White House posted an AI-generated image of President Trump dressed in papal attire. While some called it a joke, many Catholics found it very offensive. It was certainly a juvenile prank from the highest office in our land. But what is even more offensive, in my opinion, are the images of politicians, one certainly Catholic, posing in front of an overcrowded cage of half-naked men in a foreign prison as if they were animals in a zoo. Some of them we have sent there without due process to determine whether they are truly guilty of a crime and are without any recourse through legal advice or other communication. Is this who we are now? I thought Christians were better than this.
Mary Lu Callahan
Iowa City
Meme was not offensive
To the Editor:
I am a lifelong Catholic, born in 1940, and I revere what our papacy is.
I feel it is strong enough to withstand a bit of juvenile nonsense (re: the meme of President Donald Trump appearing as a pope after the death of Pope Francis).
I do not feel that a cartoon like the AI meme ranks very high with the true forms of persecution that our Church and its members are enduring in other parts of the world.
It does not compare to what our Jewish brothers are enduring. I think the Messenger could focus more on that persecution.
Yvonne Krysztofiak
Bettendorf
