One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the fourteenth century when the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death, and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon.

Social media users often falsely attribute quotes to Leo that he supposedly said about U.S. President Donald Trump.

A Vatican diplomat met with Pentagon officials in January, and now some people are asking if President Donald Trump threatened Pope Leo. What we know.

It’s an unprecedented situation, with the first American pope directly assailing the American president over the war in Iran, where a fragile ceasefire took hold this week. The announcement came after Pope Leo XIV declared that Trump’s belligerence was “truly unacceptable.”

Trump escalates rhetoric against Iran, warning of massive infrastructure strikes as a Tuesday deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz approaches.

Trump's statement contradicted Iran's previous comment celebrating the ceasefire deal, which claimed the U.S. had agreed to enrichment.