{"id":13379,"date":"2026-04-03T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/13379\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:50:06","slug":"as-u-s-bombs-iran-pope-leo-takes-aim-at-the-idea-of-a-god-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/13379\/","title":{"rendered":"As U.S. bombs Iran, Pope Leo takes aim at the idea of a \u2018God of war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XIU62NFQIFGH5LSXE767L4MCRU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">VATICAN CITY \u2014 As Leo XIV approaches his first Easter as pope, a new era of American military might cloaked in religious righteousness is presenting him with a challenge: How to confront a vision of God being articulated by the Trump administration and its supporters that sounds radically different than the view of the Vatican, spiritual epicenter of the world\u2019s largest Christian faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VATICAN CITY \u2014 As Leo XIV approaches his first Easter as pope, a new era of American military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,9,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-13379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116341337174363379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}