Well, isn’t this interesting?
Over there at Mediaite is this headline: “Pope Leo Makes Historic Public Apology for Vatican’s Complicity in Slavery,” but silence on reparations.
Pope Leo
Pope Leo: Christians and Muslims Must Work Together to ‘Revive Humanity’
Pope Leo XIV is doubling down on Christian-Muslim dialogue, emphasizing an “equal” partnership in both traditions toward global transformation. But normative Islam does not view disbelievers as equals. “Pope: Christians and Muslims must work together to ‘revive humanity,’” by Joseph Tulloch, Vatican News, May 11, 2026…
Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Pope Leo vs. President Trump
After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!” declared Pope Leo XIV this week. “Instead, as we know, it still exists, and technological development, which is positive in itself, is being put at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression!” The pontiff remonstrated: “Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky.”
The first pope from the US is pressing Trump — and getting little in return
The White House’s top ranks are filled with Catholics, and President Donald Trump has courted the Catholic vote. But repeated, pointed criticisms from the first American to lead the Catholic Church have done little to move the administration on policy.
In recent months, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the administration’s treatment of migrants, its antipathy toward Europe and global institutions like the United Nations and the use of what he characterized as “diplomacy based on force” in the wake of the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.