{"id":3424,"date":"2026-07-13T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:42:03","slug":"vatican-blows-up-trump-goons-pope-leo-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Blows Up Trump Goon\u2019s Pope Leo Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A senior Vatican official shot down comments made by Donald Trump\u2019s ambassador to the Holy See in the latest round of the president\u2019s feud with the American-born pontiff. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3423\">Trump, 80, Melts Down at Obama in Unhinged Rant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Brian Burch had dismissed Pope Leo XIV\u2019s criticism of Trump\u2019s war with Iran as the words of a political leader overseeing a small country, and not the gospel of a spiritual leader guiding 1.4 billion people across the globe. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhen the pope acts as the sovereign leader of the Holy See, he is coequal with world leaders,\u201d said Burch, a longtime conservative Catholic activist, in an interview with The New York Times earlier this month. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That interpretation, however, was roundly rejected Monday by the Vatican\u2019s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when he speaks about war and peace, migration, or how to remain human in the age of artificial intelligence, the Successor of Peter remains, above all, a spiritual leader,\u201d Tornielli wrote in an op-ed for Vatican News.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Pope Leo is also the sovereign of the world\u2019s smallest state \u201cdoes not mean that he acts or speaks as a politician when addressing issues concerning the affairs of humanity,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has been feuding with the pope\u2014who was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois\u2014for months over the pontiff\u2019s criticism of his hardline immigration policy and foreign wars, including the administration\u2019s attacks on Venezuela and Iran. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Iran, the criteria for a just war are not present,\u201d Pope Leo told reporters last month. <\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after Trump ranted against him on social media for supposedly being \u201cWEAK on crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3421\">ICE Kills Second Person in Less Than a Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeo 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,\u201d Trump wrote in April. \u201cIt\u2019s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it\u2019s hurting the Catholic Church!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Polling showed large majorities of Americans sided with the pope over Trump, but high-profile Catholics in the Trump administration\u2014including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2014have tied themselves in knots trying to defend the president\u2019s policies against the Vatican\u2019s teachings. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Times, Burch insisted the Vatican had not declared \u201cdefinitively\u201d whether Trump\u2019s strikes against Iran were \u201ca just or unjust war.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Later, he acknowledged the pope had indeed explicitly called the war unjust, but suggested he didn\u2019t really mean it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep in mind the \u2018just war\u2019 tradition for the Holy See does rely ultimately upon the prudential wisdom of the legitimately elected sovereign\u201d of the country waging war, he insisted. <\/p>\n<p>Tornielli\u2019s op-ed did not name Burch or Trump, but it did reference the debate about a \u201cjust war,\u201d as well as the pope\u2019s calls for human life to be \u201crespected and protected at every stage of its existence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When the pope speaks on those matters, he is \u201csimply proclaiming the Gospel,\u201d Tornielli wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny glorification or exaggeration of the Pope\u2019s role as head of state\u2026 is misleading because it comes at the expense of his one true mission as universal Shepherd,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3419\">Federal Judge Goes Nuclear on Trump\u2019s Goons over $1.8B Grift Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has reached out to Burch\u2019s office for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Vatican official shot down comments made by Donald Trump\u2019s ambassador to the Holy See in the latest round of the president\u2019s feud with the American-born pontiff. 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