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Pope Leo XIV clarified aboard a papal flight on April 18 that his Cameroon speech denouncing a world "ravaged by a handful of tyrants" was not directed at President Trump, saying the address was written two weeks before Trump's attacks on him. The clarification — delivered informally to journalists rather than through an official Vatican statement — arrives amid the most serious US-Vatican diplomatic rift in modern history, driven by disagreements over the Iran War, immigration policy, and $35 million in federal funding cuts to Catholic charitable organizations.