Hegseth responds to Pope’s criticism: ‘We know what authority we have’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Friday defended the U.S. subject cognition against Iran amid President Trump’s ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV, caput of the Catholic Church.   “The Pope’s gonna bash his thing, that’s fine,” Hegseth told reporters astatine a Pentagon briefing. “We cognize what our ngo is, we cognize what authorization we have. We’re precise wide astir that,…