So it turns out that Elbridge Colby is, indeed, insane: “The US,” Colby said, according to a report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-trump-212552754.html
Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump

It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.

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@kevinrothrock In the middle ages that would have been quite reasonable.
@kallekn this administration's M.O.