{"id":82103,"date":"2026-04-13T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82103"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:08:09","slug":"catholic-newspaper-warns-donald-trump-leading-us-into-corporate-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/catholic-newspaper-warns-donald-trump-leading-us-into-corporate-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Newspaper Warns Donald Trump Leading US Into \u2018Corporate Evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Newsweek<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The ominous, unfulfilled threat by President Donald Trump to obliterate Iran this week signaled the &#8220;descent into corporate evil&#8221; for the United States, according to an editorial published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Editorial staff at the Missouri-based\u00a0<em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em>\u00a0condemned Trump in a scathing critique days after he vowed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-iran-warning-whole-civilization-die-11792792\">indiscriminately slaughter Iranians<\/a> if their government failed to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing conflict. &#8220;They will go down as three of the most reckless and defining days in the history of the U.S. presidency, an anti-Triduum that began on Easter Sunday morning,&#8221; the staff wrote in Friday&#8217;s editorial. &#8220;Announcing to the world that we were willing to annihilate a civilization, Donald Trump led our descent into corporate evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776071289\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Catholic Newspaper Warns Donald Trump Leading US Into \u2018Corporate Evil\u2019\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsweek: The ominous, unfulfilled threat by President Donald Trump to obliterate Iran this week signaled the &#8220;descent into corporate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82104,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82103\/revisions\/82104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}