Trump lambasts Pope Leo XIV, extending feud over Iran war with first American pontiff

The pope had demanded governmental leaders halt and negociate peace.

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV connected societal media connected Sunday, saying the archetypal American pope should "stop catering to the Radical Left."

It was an bonzer broadside against the planetary person of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began implicit the warfare successful Iran.

"Pope Leo is WEAK connected Crime, and unspeakable for Foreign Policy," the president wrote connected societal media. He besides wrote that "I don't privation a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to person a Nuclear Weapon."

A abbreviated clip later, speaking to reporters aft Air Force One landed extracurricular Washington from Florida, Trump said, "We don't similar a pope who says it's OK to person a atomic weapon."

"He's a precise wide person," Trump said of Leo, earlier adding, "I'm not a instrumentality of Pope Leo."

Trump's station followed Leo having denounced implicit the play the "delusion of omnipotence" that is fueling the U.S.-Israel warfare successful Iran and demanded governmental leaders halt and negociate peace.

Leo presided implicit an evening supplication work successful St. Peter's Basilica connected the aforesaid time the United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations successful Pakistan during a fragile ceasefire.

The U.S.-born pope didn't notation the United States oregon Trump by sanction successful his prayer. But Leo's code and connection appeared directed astatine Trump and U.S. officials, who person boasted of U.S. subject superiority and justified the warfare successful spiritual terms.

Leo is scheduled to permission Monday for an 11-day travel to Africa.