After the war in Iran started on February 28, Pope Leo XIV issued “muted appeals for peace and dialogue” for several weeks. However, his tone changed when he delivered a stern homily on March 29, Palm Sunday. He said, “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.”

In response, President Donald Trump said that the Pope was “WEAK on Crime, and terrible on foreign policy.” He also commented, “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE to do.”

Pope Leo replied to those comments by telling reporters, “The things that I say are certainly not meant as attacks on anyone, and the message of the Gospel is very clear: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do.”

In the past few weeks, much of the Pope’s ire has been directed at President Trump. When the President posted on social media “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if the Iranians did not agree to open the Strait of Hormuz, the Pope responded that it was a “truly unacceptable” statement.

Unfortunately, Pope Leo has not been as forceful in his denunciations of the radical Islamist regime in Iran despite their financial support of terrorist organizations that kill innocent people worldwide. This Islamist regime also brutally........

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