Folks, let’s make something clear here:
It is quite literally Pope Leo XIV’s job to articulate Catholic teaching. If you’re not Catholic, then you are free to simply answer “noted” and move on. If you are Catholic, you should already know our rules on the matter — and in the United States, compliance with them is legally voluntary.
Catholics emphatically do not believe that our religious beliefs are a private part of who we are and how we live. Our understanding of “separation of Church and State” is that there is no official religion in the United States — i.e., we’re supposedly free to practice ours. See the First Amendment.