Pope Leo’s stance on nuclear weapons, crime, and “catering to the Radical Left” does not sit well with US President Donald Trump, according to a Monday morning Truth Social post made by the president.
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump wrote. “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela,” or a pope who is critical of him doing “exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do.”
Further, Trump said that Pope Leo “should be thankful,” as the only reason he had been elected to the Vatican was “because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.”
“If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,” Trump claimed. “I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!”
Pope Leo should “get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician,” since it is hurting him and the Catholic church “very badly,” Trump concluded.
Efforts to handle crises should be managed by the United Nations, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said at the time.
The Holy See “will not participate in the Board of Peace because of its particular nature, which is evidently not that of other States,” Parolin said.
“One concern,” he noted, “is that at the international level it should above all be the United Nations that manages these crisis situations. This is one of the points on which we have insisted.”
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