{"id":26457,"date":"2026-04-10T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26457"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:51:59","slug":"obamas-strategist-david-axelrod-met-with-the-pope-what-did-they-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/obamas-strategist-david-axelrod-met-with-the-pope-what-did-they-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Strategist David Axelrod Met With the Pope: What Did They Talk About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/208864\/pope-obama-adviser-pentagon-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met with<\/a>\u00a0former Barack Obama senior advisor and political strategist David Axelrod on April 9 in what appears to be more than just a private papal audience for one of the Pope&#8217;s flock.<\/p>\n<p>Axelrod is not Catholic or Christian. In fact, even though Axelrod was raised in a conservative Jewish household, he has said that while he has felt a \u201creal attachment\u201d to the country of Israel, religious observance is not his thing. In 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/378167\/how-david-axelrod-stays-true-to-his-progressive-jewish-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he said<\/a>, \u201cLike many of my peers, I pushed back from religion because it was so compulsory; something you had to do rather than something that could enrich your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tim-o-brien\/2026\/04\/09\/obamas-strategist-david-axelrod-met-with-the-pope-what-did-talk-about-n4951633\">pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV\u00a0met with\u00a0former Barack Obama senior advisor and political strategist David Axelrod on April 9 in what appears to be more than just a private papal audience for one of the Pope&#8217;s flock. Axelrod is not Catholic or Christian. In fact, even though Axelrod was raised in a conservative Jewish household, he has said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/obamas-strategist-david-axelrod-met-with-the-pope-what-did-they-talk-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama\u2019s Strategist David Axelrod Met With the Pope: What Did They Talk About?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6SJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26458,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions\/26458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}