{"id":89203,"date":"2026-04-18T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=89203"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:53:12","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-regrets-trump-controversy-causing-misunderstandings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/pope-leo-xiv-regrets-trump-controversy-causing-misunderstandings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV REGRETS Trump controversy causing misunderstandings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Violet Riquelme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has spoken out about the recent controversy with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It began a few days ago with a message posted on Truth Social, where Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV and his positions on political and social issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The social media post included claims that <em>\u201cPope Leo is weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his flight from Cameroon to Angola, Pope Leo XIV said that the narrative around his remarks \u201chas not been entirely accurate,\u201d and denied any direct dispute with the U.S. President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ORIG ENGLISH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(01:54 \u2013 02:29)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Much of what has been written since then has been more commentary on commentary, trying to interpret what has been said. Just one little example, the talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for peace, a couple days ago, was prepared two weeks ago, well before the President ever commented on me and on the message of peace that I am promoting. And yet, as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate, again, the president, which is not my interest at all<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pope insisted that he does not intend to engage in political debates, focusing instead on delivering the Gospel\u2019s message during the trip, emphasizing the importance of fraternity, justice, and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet Riquelme Pope Leo XIV has spoken out about the recent controversy with U.S. President Donald Trump. It began a few days ago with a message posted on Truth Social, where Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV and his positions on political and social issues. The social media post included claims that \u201cPope Leo is weak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":89204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QD3F-KBGOB0","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b14conferanzaangolaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b14conferanzaangolaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89208,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89203\/revisions\/89208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}