Social media users often falsely attribute quotes to Leo that he supposedly said about U.S. President Donald Trump.

One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the fourteenth century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France.

It’s an unprecedented situation, with the first American pope directly assailing the American president over the war in Iran, where a fragile ceasefire took hold this week. The announcement came after Pope Leo XIV declared that Trump’s belligerence was “truly unacceptable.”

Rising tensions between the US and the Vatican over war, immigration, and rhetoric escalate, exposing deep divisions as Pope Leo XIV cancels a US visit.

On Tuesday, February 17, the Vatican’s top diplomat confirmed that Pope Leo XIV won’t be joining the Donald Trump-established Board of Peace. Talking to reporters following an event with the Italian Government, Cardinal Pietro Parolin noted that ...

Pope Leo XIV says that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is “truly unacceptable” and that any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.

Pope Leo praised the Iran "truce" hours after condemning Trump's threats to wipe out a "whole civilization." Here's what he said.