Any surprise on this?
Did anyone see Donald stepping over the King of England?
A mere Pope?
Come ON!…..
Trump throws back any ANYONE that don’t see things ‘his way’…..
And this is NOT the first time the American President has knocked the Pope…
Sec of State Rubio is going to actually speak to the Pope (Clear things up?) after his boss dissed the American Born head of the Catholic Church….
Leo quickly pushed back against the president’s latest remarks, painting them as untrue.
“Should anyone want to criticize me for proclaiming the Gospel, they should do so with the truth,” Leo told journalists outside the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. “For years the Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons, so there’s no doubt about it, there. So I simply hope to be listened to for the value of God’s word.”
The tense exchange again highlighted what Vatican officials have described privately as an unprecedented low in relations with the United States ahead of Rubio’s visit to Italy this week, including a scheduled audience with Leo on Thursday.
Direct criticism by an American president of the spiritual leader of the world’s Roman Catholics, who now number 1.4 billion, is exceedingly rare.
Rubio on Tuesday sought to dispel any suggestions of a rift, indicating that his meeting had been planned before Trump’s verbal attacks on the pope last month, which have raised pique in the halls of the Vatican and divided conservative Catholics in the United States. Trump upbraided Leo on social media after the pope and his proxies, including American bishops, repeatedly spoke out in favor of peace and against the invocation of God’s name to justify war.
Rubio conceded however, that “we had some stuff that happened” since the meeting was arranged….
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While Leo has spoken out against the U.S.-Israel war in Iran in increasingly vocal terms, and taken aim at invocations of God to defend war, he has never suggested that it is acceptable for Iran to have a nuclear bomb — a devastating weapon the Vatican has long opposed.
Trump’s latest comments follow more detailed criticism he leveled against Leo in April, in which he labeled the Chicago-born pontiff “WEAK on crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy” in an attack that brought a flurry of rebukes.
Elect Al Smith!!