Pope Leo speaks on the Church's message of peace and answers question on the Iran war in a rebuke of Trump.
Both are competing on resentment rather than delivering substantive solutions for Australia’s future.
Though we’re blessed with intellectual and physical resources,we have twiddled our thumbs while the world has changed.
Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo,the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.
The US president will read a passage from the Old Testament book of 2 Chronicles,a touchstone for many of his Christian supporters,in the coming America Reads the Bible event.
Trump was re-elected with strong support from white American Catholics. Picking a fight with the pontiff is not in his political or ecclesiastical interest.
Leo took aim at “the masters of war” who spend billions of dollars on conflict. His unusually forceful remarks came just days after the US president attacked him on social media.
The US president once called the Italian PM “a very special person”,but relations have soured.
This masthead asked more than a dozen Republican senators if they had concerns about the US president’s stability after he slammed the Pope and likened himself to Jesus.
The US president’s verbal assault on Pope Leo XIV,followed by the release of a now-deleted post portraying himself as a Christ-like saviour,has riled the American religious right.