Open Letter to Paul Kengor re: "Donald Trump’s Tirade at the Vicar of Christ" (Crisis, April 2026)

By Joe Tevington

04/14/2026 • View profile

Dr. Paul Kengor | Chief Academic Scholar
The Institute for Faith & Freedom
Grove City College
Grove City, PA 16127

Paul,

I was also.revolted by the president's Easter morning post. While I realize that you are a new Catholic, the Holy Father's "sins of omission" merit your attention.

Faithful Catholics in China were abandoned by Pope Francis. He also seemed to ignore the devout Nigerian Catholics slaughtered by Islamists.
Pope Leo should correct his predecessor's promotion of heterodox Jesuits James Martin and Cardinal "Tucho" Fernandez, as well as former Jesuit Marko Rupnik. In my view, the faculties of each should be suspended.
In annual addresses to the Roman Rota, St Pope JP II & Pope B 16 struck me as growing fearful of incorrect declarations of marital nullity. Francis did not seem to have such qualms. From Pope Leo's own address to the Rota, I am unclear as to which of his predecessors he will follow.
Pope Francis suppressed the Latin Mass, and Pope Leo appears to be doing little to change that.
Via Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Francis struck me as absurdly trying to.equate gay couples with Holy Matrimony! Pope Leo needs to correct the damage done by his predecessor.

Joe Tevington
Morrisville, Pa

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Joe Tevington

Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.

On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.

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