April 13, 2026

Pope Leo is not backing down. After Trump blasted him as “WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy” over the Iran conflict, the pontiff said he has “no fear” of the administration and will keep speaking out against war, even as he declined to spar directly with the president. The clash is unusual, blunt, and politically loaded: a rare public rebuke from a pope to a U.S. leader, with more than 70 million Catholics in America watching as Leo presses for peace and Trump escalates the fight.

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