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Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, used his inaugural Palm Sunday homily on March 29, 2026, to declare that God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war," quoting Isaiah 1:15 — a passage widely interpreted as a rebuke of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran and the religious rhetoric used to justify it. The address intensifies a clash between the Vatican and the Trump administration over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's framing of the conflict as a Christian holy war, and places Leo XIV squarely in a tradition of papal anti-war intervention stretching back to John Paul II's opposition to the 2003 Iraq invasion.