Rich MAGA Catholics flying to the Vatican after Trump joked he’d ‘like to be Pope’ is 2025’s weirdest Catholic news. Apparently, Trump’s papal ambitions inspired a literal pilgrimage—because when your favorite candidate mentions the Vatican, you book that flight and hope for holy water selfies.

What unfolds is a comic spectacle: MAGA hats bobbing through St. Peter’s Basilica, hopeful billionaires scanning for cardinal vacancies, and Trump’s “I’d like to be Pope” fueling Vatican gift shop booms. Rich MAGA Catholics chase headlines and history, Rome never saw it coming.