{"id":83501,"date":"2026-06-10T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83501"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:10:00","slug":"pope-in-another-veiled-swipe-at-u-s-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-in-another-veiled-swipe-at-u-s-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope In Another &#8216;Veiled Swipe&#8217; At U.S. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Telegraph:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV issued a veiled criticism of Donald Trump during his blessing of Antoni Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Sagrada Famil\u00eda Basilica in Barcelona.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/pope-leo-xiv\/\">The Pope<\/a>\u00a0c<\/span>elebrated Mass at the still-unfinished church in Barcelona on Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of its architect\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In a homily at the basilica, the Pope said people cannot consider themselves Christians if they \u201cpromote war\u201d, echoing a previous disagreement between the Catholic leader and the US president. \u201cWe cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent,\u201d the Pope said in front of thousands of worshipers, including Spanish King Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Telegraph: Pope Leo XIV issued a veiled criticism of Donald Trump during his blessing of Antoni Gaud\u00ed\u2019s.<\/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-83501","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\/83501","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=83501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}