{"id":484,"date":"2026-04-15T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/pope-leo-xiv-responds-to-trump-vows-to-continue-speaking-out\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:11:47","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-responds-to-trump-vows-to-continue-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=484&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Responds to Trump, Vows to Continue &#8216;Speaking Out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has affirmed his commitment to continue &#8216;speaking out&#8217; following a public rebuke from former President Donald Trump. The dispute began late Sunday, April 12, after Trump criticized the pontiff&#8217;s views on his foreign and immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope had previously voiced his concern over Trump&#8217;s comment last week regarding Iran, where he stated &#8216;a whole civilisation will die,&#8217; a remark made at a critical juncture in the ongoing conflict. Leo, who last year became the first US-born pope, has established himself as an outspoken critic of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which began on February 28. He has also previously questioned the Trump administration&#8217;s approach to immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded on Sunday with a post on TruthSocial, stating, &#8216;Leo should get his act together as Pope.&#8217; He later informed reporters that he was &#8216;not a big fan&#8217; of the pontiff, intensifying the public disagreement between the two figures.<\/p>\n<p>#PopeLeoXIV #DonaldTrump #PapalResponse #USPolitics #ReligiousLeaders #ForeignPolicy #ImmigrationPolicy #IranConflict #TruthSocial #Vatican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has affirmed his commitment to continue &#8216;speaking out&#8217; following a public rebuke from former President Donald Trump. The dispute began late Sunday, April 12, after Trump criticized the pontiff&#8217;s views on his foreign and immigration policies. The Pope had previously voiced his concern over Trump&#8217;s comment last week regarding Iran, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}