On Monday, #PopeLeo said he would continue to publicly oppose #war, while downplaying the idea that he was engaged in a direct dispute with #Trump.
“The things I say are not meant as attacks on anyone,” Leo told reporters.
He added: “I do not look at my role as being political, a politician. I don’t want to get into a debate with him. I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing.”
One senior #Vatican official familiar with internal assessments of the meeting called it “unusual” & not “a walk in the park.” It was “a frank & direct dialogue on issues where the distance between the Vatican & the #US is evident & clear,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal assessments.
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During the discussion, the small group of #Pentagon & #Vatican officials discussed their differing views of current events, according to people on both sides with knowledge of the conversation. What is less clear is how adversarial the meeting was.
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Cardinal’s meeting at #Pentagon was ‘unusual,’ #Vatican official says
Through the first year of Trump’s 2nd term, tensions between his admin & the Vatican — with the first #US born #pope — have simmered.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/10/trump-vatican-pentagon-meeting/
📌 Israeli authorities’ restrictions on #freedomofreligion in #jerusalem are not only a grave violation of religious freedom and #internationallaw, but also part of a systematic apparatus of repression within a broader structure of #settlercolonialism and #apartheid
These measures are used to subjugate Palestinians and reshape the city’s demography along discriminatory religious and ethnic lines -
EuroMed #humanrights Monitor
Israeli authorities have maintained the full closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque for the 37th consecutive day since 28 February 2026, completely preventing religious rituals
But without naming #Hegseth, #PopeLeo has also pointed out the ways in which #Christianity has been marshaled for purposes that the pope says do not align with Catholic teaching.
“We tend to consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy our equals, great when we are feared,” the pope said in the homily…. “God has given us an example — not of how to dominate, but of how to liberate; not of how to destroy life, but of how to give it.”
In a homily during a Mass on Thursday morning before #Easter, #PopeLeo said that the #Christian mission has often been “distorted by a desire for domination, entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
Since the #US & #Israel began bombing #Iran in late February, the pope has consistently called for an end to the violence & a return to dialogue to resolve the conflict.
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#Hegseth Says #US #Troops Are Fighting for #Jesus. The #Pope Disagrees.
In sharp contrast to the #Trump administration’s calls for #Christian prayers for the #war effort, #PopeLeo XIV says #military domination is “entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/middleeast/pope-iran-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumsfeld in 2001 invited some local #Muslim leaders to the #Pentagon to gauge their feelings about how the admin was communicating, said a chaplain who was at the meeting.
Around that time, the Navy Chaplain Corps changed its motto from “Cooperation Without Compromise” to “Called to Serve All.” The change aimed to emphasize that #chaplains served everyone in their command, no matter the faith.
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