{"id":82027,"date":"2026-04-09T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82027"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:06:21","slug":"vance-asked-if-pentagon-threatened-pontiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vance-asked-if-pentagon-threatened-pontiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Asked If Pentagon Threatened Pontiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Mediaite:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vice President\u00a0<strong>JD Vance<\/strong> was confronted on Wednesday with a recent report that the Pentagon threatened the Vatican with military force. A Monday report from\u00a0<em>The Free Press<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/pope-leo-reportedly-unlikely-to-visit-us-after-trainwreck-trump-admin-meeting\/\">rocky relationship<\/a>\u00a0between President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0White House and\u00a0<strong>Pope Leo XIV<\/strong>, the Holy See\u2019s first U.S.-born Pope. According to the report, the Pentagon invited the Holy See ambassador to the U.S., Cardinal\u00a0<strong>Christophe Pierre,<\/strong>\u00a0for a meeting in response to a recent speech by the Pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-1\">During that meeting, U.S. officials reportedly complained about the speech and took exception to Pope Leo\u2019s indirect shots at the president. One of those officials, the report continued, even referenced the Avignon Papacy of the 14th century \u2014 a period largely defined by the French Crown imposing its will to influence the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place \u2014 and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon\u2019s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon\u2019s reference to an\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nOWTWF4oI0\">https:\/\/t.co\/nOWTWF4oI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherHale\/status\/2041959904823366074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775718381\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Vance Asked If Pentagon Threatened Pontiff\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mediaite: Vice President\u00a0JD Vance was confronted on Wednesday with a recent report that the Pentagon threatened the Vatican with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82028,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82027\/revisions\/82028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}