{"id":64892,"date":"2026-04-13T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:46:25","slug":"trump-berates-pope-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64892\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Berates Pope Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Pope has avoided specifically referring to Trump in his criticism. But the Bishop of Rome again alluded to war in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/homilies\/2026\/documents\/20260411-rosario-pace.html\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">prayer vigil<\/a> at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica on Saturday. \u201cEnough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!\u201d the Pope said on April 11, the same day as U.S. and Iranian officials began unsuccessful <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/12\/trump-blockade-strait-of-hormuz-iran\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">peace negotiations<\/a> in Islamabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI don\u2019t want a Pope who thinks it\u2019s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don\u2019t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I\u2019m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pope has avoided specifically referring to Trump in his criticism. But the Bishop of Rome again alluded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,34,310,355,10307],"class_list":{"0":"post-64892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-news-desk","11":"tag-overnight","12":"tag-pope"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116396764945095856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}