The pope's English fuels a Trump feud

Escalating tensions between Pope Leo XIV and President Trump may hinge on something unusually simple: the pope doesn't need a translator. The big picture: Leo's native-level English removes a long-standing Vatican buffer — ambiguity in translation — that has historically softened or clarified papal critiques of U.S. leaders. Without that layer, Leo's comments land more directly in the American me
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Axios
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