Anonymousabout 4 hours ago
Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, has issued increasingly forceful condemnations of the US-Israeli military campaign in Iran, culminating in a denunciation of the "delusion of omnipotence" at an April 11 prayer vigil in St. Peter's Basilica. His statements — coinciding with fragile ceasefire talks in Pakistan, a cancelled US papal visit, and an alleged Pentagon confrontation with the Vatican's ambassador — have placed the Holy See at the center of the sharpest church-state clash in modern American history, while exposing divisions over whether papal moral authority can shape the course of an active military conflict.