Pope Leo XIV met with a longtime Democratic strategist a day after reports emerged that Pentagon officials had berated a top Vatican diplomat over the pontiff’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s warmongering.
Elbridge Colby, a Catholic who serves as undersecretary of defense for policy, summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre back in January and told him the U.S. military had the power to do “whatever it wants,” and that the American-born pope “better take its side,” The Free Press reported Wednesday.
At one point during the meeting, a U.S. official invoked the Avignon Papacy, a decades-long period in the 1300s when the French crown leveraged its military might to dominate the papacy.
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