U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he doesn’t fear the Trump administration.

“To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here, I think is not understanding what the message of the Gospel is,” Leo told AP aboard the papal plane en route to Algeria. “And I’m sorry to hear that but I will continue on what I believe is the mission of the church in the world today.”

History’s first U.S.-born pope stressed that he was not making a direct attack against Trump or anyone else with his general appeal for peace and criticisms of the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the Iran wars and other conflicts around the world.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    We keep talking about evangelical Armageddon…

    But the one in Islam is looking even more likely every day.

    For them, Muslims and Christians are supposed to unite against the Anti-christ, and then Jesus comes back to lead the armies of God, and converts everyone to Islam.

    The way shits going, I could see the Pope and Muslim leaders unifying. But it’s still concerning the goal of most world leaders is to end the fucking world. At least after Islam’s Armageddon we’re supposed to get 40 years of peace a under Jesus as a world leader. It won’t happen, but at least there’s a happy ending there.