Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech to the faithful during the Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on November 5, 2025. | Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of new
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