God bless him – Peter
Pope Leo XIV has positioned himself as the most political pope in many years. The consequences are being felt in Israel and the territories as well
Last Sunday, exactly one week after Easter, the U.S. president took to social media to launch an attack on the pope. Donald Trump declared that Leo XIV was “weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy,” adding that the first American-born pope would not have been elected without his help.
The background to the sharp post on Truth Social was a report aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” in which three cardinals criticized the war in Iran. The very act of cardinals daring to speak out so publicly was unusual, reflecting an accelerated political-strategic shift in the Church’s stance since Leo ascended to the Holy See. The day after Trump’s furious response, the pope took another unusual step: He held a public conversation with journalists and directly criticized a head of state – which is almost unprecedented. “I have no fear of the Trump administration,” he asserted.
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