It’s a story you might say could happen “only in America,” but this one is unfolding in Rome: Bob from the south side of Chicago is how His Holiness, the infallible supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and leader of some one billion Catholics worldwide.

While Trump rushed to the White House driveway to praise the Chicago-born and Villanova-educated Leo, his legion of fans were less laudatory. “WOKE MARXIST POPE,” tweeted far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer, who also called Leo “just another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.”