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The Popes That Trump Might’ve Liked

The President thinks Pope Leo XIV is a wuss. Meet some real tough-guy Pontiffs who might have fit the bill.

Joining the Bad Popes

Pope Leo XIV, our first deep-dish pope, seems like quite a good fellow. He was born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, lived on the South... read more...

Many Popes Before Leo Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.

Leo XIV, under fire from President Trump, has joined predecessors like Francis and John Paul II in confronting political issues.

Pope Leo appoints three bishops critical of Trump amid feud with White House officials

Pope Leo has criticized the Iran war and said he isn’t afraid of the Trump administration

Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the Earth during his visit to Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict...

Pope blasts 'tyrants' ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV blasted the "handful of tyrants" who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace.

"World Being Ravaged By Tyrants": Pope In Cameroon Amid Spat With Trump

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday criticised the "tyrants" ransacking the world, on a high-security visit to a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon following a war of words with US President D...

Pope rages at 'wicked' and 'arrogant' leaders as Trump feud explodes

Pope Leo XIV has hit out at "wicked" and "arrogant" figures in a fiery statement on X amid his ongoing feud with Donald Trump

Pope calls out tyrants, corruption amid pause in Cameroon's deadly conflict

The pope celebrated his first large Mass in Africa, calling out those who "lay their hands on the African continent to exploit and plunder it."

Pope Leo appoints new bishops who have spoken against Trump administration

Pope Leo says world ‘being ravaged by handful of tyrants’ after Trump attacks

Pontiff decried leaders who spend ‘billions on wars’ amid deepening row with US president

Pope says the world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants and condemns leaders who spend billions on wars - after Tru...

Pope Leo XIV made the unusually forceful remarks during a trip to Cameroon on Thursday after the US President launched a tirade against him over his repeated criticism of the war i...

‘A pope who uses his brain’: Vatican locals and visitors take sides in Leo v Trump spat

While some US visitors back their president, shopkeepers who serve the papacy and tourists support the pontiffOn the wall of the back room of an optician’s in Borgo Pio, a neighbou...

Pope doubles down on message of peace and unity as Trump's criticism continues

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday doubled down as President Donald Trump's criticism showed no sign of letting up, insisting that the message "the world needs to hear today" is one of peac...

Pope Leo XIV blasts ‘delusion of omnipotence' fueling the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran

In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and neg...

Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon

BAMENDA, Cameroon (AP) — Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter...

Troubled Relations: Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump

Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination.  This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine wa...

Pope Leo decries 'handful of tyrants' ravaging the world

Pope Leo has blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon.

Pope Leo XIV sought a pastoral role in his first year, but verbal sparring with Trump intervened

In his first year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV seems driven not by the dramatic gesture or tensions that often fueled the papacy of his predecessor, but by a calm, persistent zeal to p...

The American pope: Pope Leo XIV’s first year in photos

In his first year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV has sought a pastoral role focused on unity, community and calm leadership in a polarized church and world.

A president and a pope: Two of the world's most influential Americans at odds over Iran

Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans — specifically, a 79-year-old politician from Queens and a 70-year-old pontiff fr...

Robert Francis Prevost: 5 Things to Know About Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo was announced as Pope Francis' successor on May 8, 2025, becoming the first American pontiff in Vatican history.

Leo, the first US pope, emerges as pointed Trump critic

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, a close ally of Pope Leo, says the pope was taking up the mantle of a long line of pontiffs who have urged world leaders to turn away from war

Pope’s Africa trip takes him to a source of growth for the church, and critical challenges

When Pope Leo XIV pronounced himself a “son of St. Augustine” the night of his election, some Algerians took that to mean his ancestors hailed from the North African country where...