Anonymousabout 3 hours ago
Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, declared on April 18 that debating President Trump is "not in my interest at all," even as their conflict over the Iran war, immigration policy, and Catholic social teaching has escalated into the most significant Vatican-White House confrontation in modern history. The dispute has drawn in the Pentagon, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Knights of Columbus, and Vice President JD Vance, while the pope's planned 2026 visit to the United States has been postponed indefinitely — replaced by a symbolically charged July 4 trip to the Italian island of Lampedusa.