“The world is ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by countless brothers and sisters who help each other,” the American station CNN quotes the Pope. According to him, instead of helping the sick, world leaders spend billions on wars. However, he did not specifically mention any leader.
The Pope further condemned leaders who use religious language to justify wars and called for a “decisive change of course”, Reuters reported. He was probably alluding to Trump, who let it be known that “God supports” the war launched by the USA and Israel against Iran and that the conflict has “God’s blessing”.
The Pope got into trouble with Trump because of criticism of the war in Iran. He also does not like the American migration policy, because since Donald Trump took office, the United States has been deporting migrants, including those who have lived in the US for decades. In addition to them, they also deport their children who, thanks to their birth in the USA, have American citizenship. Especially the cases of sick children undergoing cancer treatment in the USA, which Washington expelled together with their parents, became infamous.
In response to the Pope’s criticism of the war, Trump said that Leo XIV would he should have recovered and that he became pope only thanks to him. According to Trump, the Pope is “terrible in foreign policy”.
The head of the White House was defended this week by his vice president JD Vance, according to whom the Pope should stop interfering in American affairs.
