Donald Trump has delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV, saying the US-born leader of the Catholic church was ‘a very liberal person’ who did not believe in stopping crime.
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In response, the pope, who arrived in Algeria on Monday as part of an 11-day tour of Africa, told reporters on the papal flight that he did not fear the Trump administration and would continue to speak out against war. The president’s comments came after Leo suggested at the weekend that a ‘delusion of omnipotence’ was fuelling the US-Israel war in Iran
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