{"id":82714,"date":"2026-05-05T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82714"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:07:49","slug":"trump-again-attacks-pontiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-again-attacks-pontiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Again Attacks Pontiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/342745d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F1a%2F56%2F1a5a62fedecfe0e66347608c2798%2F6fadec41d9ac4062971c7f5ee1135f65\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists as he leaves his residence in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, to return to the Vatican, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gregorio Borgia)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-pope-leo-iran-war-relationship-criticism-8473f1d8b8127a77ef94ba2f4ad378fb\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">renewed his criticism<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rubio-trump-pope-leo-italy-vatican-8f5b900912e02ac6f3b93e173e01ea74\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">fence-mending visit<\/a><\/span> that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to make this week to the Vatican.\u00a0In an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Trump said the first American-born pontiff is helping Iran and also making the world less safe with his comments about the importance of not treating immigrants with disrespect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pope would rather talk about the fact that it\u2019s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,\u201d Trump said in the interview on Monday. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that\u2019s very good. I think he\u2019s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people.\u201d<\/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=\"1778004469\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Trump Again Attacks Pontiff\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: President Donald Trump has\u00a0renewed his criticism\u00a0of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a\u00a0fence-mending visit that Secretary of State Marco.<\/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-82714","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\/82714","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=82714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}