Inside Trump’s Pentagon Threat to Pope Leo XIV
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What are Pope Leo XIV's criticisms of Donald Trump?
Pope Leo XIV is absolutely furious at Donald Trump and the Trump regime and their behavior. As we previously reported, Pope Leo has called off all visits, essentially, to the United States on the 250th. United States anniversary, July 4th, Pope Leo made a point that he will be in Lampedusa in Italy, spending his time showing compassion for the migrant community there. And we're learning some additional details as Pope Leo XIV has been calling out Donald Trump and his despicable regime's imperialist and tactics of saying we're going to obliterate civilizations and everything is going to war we're gonna obliterate you and destroy everything uh pope leo xiv has been calling that out and you know jd vance who converted to catholicism and pete hegseth who invokes god all the time pope leo xiv has been pretty much directing messages without necessarily saying their names but it's clear he's calling them out and so what the trump regime tried to do and this was a tactic
that Hitler did with the bishops right before Hitler engaged in the Holocaust right around that time is to threaten Pope Leo XIV and to threaten the Holy See with the United States military. And essentially, the same way the Trump regime was threatening to invade Greenland, right behind the scenes what we're learning today is that the united states was making threats that suggested that they would use military force against the holy see against the vatican against pope leo xiv and they summoned pope leo xiv's Like, Ben, what are you talking about? Yes, they summoned Pope Leo XIV's top American diplomat to the Pentagon, which now calls itself unlawfully the Department of War, the Undersecretary of War, Elbridge Colby.
invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will. And they said that we have the power. This is what the Trump regime said to Pope Leo XIV's top diplomat in the United States, that we have the military power to do whatever we want. Whatever we want, we will do in the world. And Pope Leo XIV, he needs to know that. So the Catholic Church has better take sides and they better take the right side. Now, this meeting that took place that I just referenced was in January and it followed Pope Leo XIV's speech, which was kind of a state of the world speech that he gives. And as Christopher Hale writes, in the speech that enraged Pete Hegseth and top Pentagon officials, Pope Leo XIV said, a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force.
War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. And since Pope Leo XIV essentially had his life destroyed, threatened and the life of the cardinals and bishops and others in the holy see threatened by the trump regime pope leo xiv has not backed down at all during this unlawful and catastrophic war in iran where at the end donald trump completely folded pope leo xiv directed this message to pete hegseth jesus is the king of peace who rejects war whom no one can use to justify war He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.
Even though you make many prayers, God will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. In other words, Pete Hegseth, stop invoking the name of God and Jesus in your war crimes because they are not listening. Also, Pope Leo XIV is saying that the type of thinking of Hegseth and J.D. Vance is entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ. The Pope argues that Christianity has been distorted by a desire for domination, warning that people mistake power for righteousness. Quote, we consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy. Instead, he says, God's example is not how to dominate, but how to give life, and adds that Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are Pope Leo XIV's criticisms of Donald Trump?
0:00–7:29
2
How did the Trump administration threaten the Vatican?
7:29–11:17
3
What was the significance of the Avignon Papacy in this context?
11:17–14:47
4
How has Pope Leo XIV responded to the threats from Trump?
14:47–17:02
5
What message did Pope Leo XIV convey about war and peace?
17:02–21:40