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Vance Says He Never Apologized to Cardinal Dolan. Dolan Says He Did Dolan told EWTN that Vance admitted his attacks on bishops were “out of line” and “not true.” Vance tells the Washington Post he said something very different.

NEW: JD Vance is calling Donald Trump’s favorite cardinal a liar.

Pope Leo XIV Called for Peace. MAGA Called Him a Marxist. After Leo's plea for diplomacy amid Iran strikes, the MAGA Catholic meltdown entered its most revealing chapter yet.

Pope Leo XIV has called for peace in Iran.

In response, MAGA called him a “sh*tlib Marxist.”

Vance Says He Never Apologized to Cardinal Dolan. Dolan Says He Did Dolan told EWTN that Vance admitted his attacks on bishops were “out of line” and “not true.” Vance tells the Washington Post he said something very different.

NEW: JD Vance’s clash with Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church is escalating.

On CBS, he accused Catholic bishops of supporting immigration because it “makes them money.”

Cardinal Dolan later said on EWTN that Vance apologized.

Now Vance tells the Washington Post that apology never happened.

“Pope Leo is cut from the same cloth as Pope Francis. Somebody who wasn't just preaching from a pulpit, but getting his hands dirty trying to help people.

“I can’t wait to meet him.” — Barack Obama

Obama Wants to Meet Pope Leo XIV — And He May Get There Before Trump The former president's Catholic roots run deeper than most people know. His career began in Chicago parishes funded by the bishops — the same city that formed the pope.

NEW: Barack Obama says the person he most wants to meet is Pope Leo XIV — a fellow Chicagoan and White Sox fan.

Now Vatican officials and President Obama’s team are working on making it happen.

Donald Trump hasn't even spoken to the pope. Obama may meet him first.

Pope Leo XIV Criticizes Trump’s Iran War for the Third Time in Three Days From St. Peter's Square to Castel Gandolfo, the first American pope has made peace the unmistakable mandate of his pontificate — and Operation Epic Fury his clearest target yet.

Three appeals in three days. That is a pope who has decided that silence is no longer an option

He condemned the world’s “zeal for war” during Trump’s Venezuela campaign. He challenged the administration’s saber-rattling over Cuba.

And now, the first American pope is naming Trump’s sin in Iran.

Pope Leo XIV Criticizes Trump’s Iran War for the Third Time in Three Days From St. Peter's Square to Castel Gandolfo, the first American pope has made peace the unmistakable mandate of his pontificate — and Operation Epic Fury his clearest target yet.

Leo condemned the world’s “zeal for war” during Trump’s Venezuela campaign.

He challenged the administration’s saber-rattling over Cuba. He pleaded for diplomacy during the first round of Iran strikes last June.

And now the first American pope is naming Trump’s sin in starting preemptive war.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has criticized Donald Trump’s Iran War for the third time in three days:

“Find solutions, without weapons, to resolve problems,” the first U.S-born pontiff said.

“Pray for peace, work for peace, less hatred. Hatred keeps growing in the world.”

Jesus Dismantles Washington’s Favorite Religion Today's readings strip away our titles and leave us with a towel and a basin — the only authority Jesus ever claimed.

We have leaders who “tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders” while refusing to lift a finger to help carry them. We have politicians who invoke God’s name to justify cruelty and bishops who wear the title of shepherd while the lost sheep wander hungry.

Jesus sees through all of it.

My Fellow Catholics, It Is Time to Choose Trump and Vance have made unmistakably clear who they are. History is now waiting to see who we are.

Under Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church is leading the resistance to Donald Trump.

The American leader of the free world.

Pope Leo XIV Called for Peace. MAGA Called Him a Marxist. After Leo's plea for diplomacy amid Iran strikes, the MAGA Catholic meltdown entered its most revealing chapter yet.

On Sunday morning, as US bombs fell on Iran, Pope Leo XIV stood and did what popes do. He called for peace.

Within hours, MAGA erupted.

MAGA personality Mike Cernovich called Leo a “sh*tlib” and a “far left wing agitator who wants Americans to surrender their guns.”

It only got worse from there.

We Measure Everything Except Mercy Poll numbers, approval ratings, quarterly earnings, net worth — we have reduced human beings to data points. Today Jesus walks into the middle of our spreadsheet and flips the table.

If we are honest about the way we treat one another in this country right now — the contempt we carry, the dehumanization we practice, the ease with which we sort people into categories of worthy and unworthy — the measure we are using is brutal.

Jesus has this message for us today.

Stop it.

Pope Leo XIV Called for Peace. MAGA Called Him a Marxist. After Leo's plea for diplomacy amid Iran strikes, the MAGA Catholic meltdown entered its most revealing chapter yet.

Pope Leo XIV called for peace in Iran.

In response, MAGA called him a “sh*tlib Marxist.”

“Violence Is Never the Right Choice” — Pope Leo XIV Laments “War Again” In Middle East He told the world to stop a war. Then he sat with mothers of addicted children in the Quarticciolo.

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Pope Leo XIV speaks against Trump’s new war in Iran and calls for peace in the Middle East.

“War again! We must be heralds of Jesus’ peace, which God desires for everyone! We must pray much for peace, live in unity, and reject the temptation to harm others; violence is never the right choice.”

Christianity Isn’t Spa Therapy We live in a nation that worships strength and despises vulnerability. Our politics rewards the loudest voice, the hardest fist, the most ruthless play for power. But, Jesus shows us a different way.

Our nation’s politics rewards the loudest voice, the hardest fist, and the most ruthless play for power.

But on the mountain, God speaks from the cloud: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” Not “follow the strongest.” Not “align with the powerful.”

Listen to him.

Pope Leo XIV (far right) has been a champion of peace for over 50 years.

“Violence Is Never the Right Choice” — Pope Leo XIV Laments “War Again” In Middle East He told the world to stop a war. Then he sat with mothers of addicted children in the Quarticciolo.

For the second time today, Pope Leo has spoken out against Trump’s new Iran War:

“War again! We must be heralds of Jesus' peace, which God desires for everyone! We must pray much for peace, live in unity, and reject the temptation to harm others; violence is never the right choice.”

‘Stop the Spiral of Violence’ — Pope Leo XIV Demands End to Trump’s Iran War The first American pope used his Angelus to deliver a forceful moral plea to end Operation Epic Fury — the latest in a pattern of prophetic opposition to Trump’s military campaigns across the globe.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has demanded that the Trump-Vance White House end its war in Iran.

He called on Trump and all parties involved to “assume the moral responsibility to stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.”

The Gospel Has No Asterisk for Geopolitics As the U.S. and Israel strike Iran, today's Gospel dismantles the oldest lie in the American playbook — that peace comes through destruction.

Bombs are falling on Iran. And the Gospel reading assigned to today’s Mass says this:

“Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you.”

No asterisk. No exception for national security. No carve-out for geopolitics.

The oldest lie in the playbook is that peace comes through destruction.

“Illegal and Immoral” — Pope Leo Expected to Condemn Trump’s Iran Strike and Appeal for Peace at Sunday Angelus A source close to the pontiff tells me that the first American pope will use tomorrow’s address to deliver a forceful moral rebuke of the U.S.-Israeli military assault.

A source close to Pope Leo XIV tells me the pontiff is expected to condemn President Trump’s strike against Iran and appeal for peace during his Sunday Angelus.

The U.S-born pope views the strikes as “immoral, illegal, and a grave threat to the entire human family.”

There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo:

“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.”

A source close to Pope Leo XIV tells me the pontiff is expected to “condemn President Trump’s immoral and illegal strike against Iran and appeal for peace” during his Sunday Angelus.

The Sin Driving American Life “Go first.” The two-word Gospel command that dismantles everything that drives our American way of life.

We’ve turned our grudges into political identities, media empires, and voting blocs.

Presidents and profiteers use them to divide and conquer us.

Jesus told us to do the exact opposite.

U.S. Bishops Take On Trump At the Supreme Court: “Protect God-Given Human Dignity” The U.S. bishops have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court calling Trump’s birthright citizenship order “immoral” and unconstitutional — a consequential legal action without recent parallel.

In a historic legal intervention, America’s Catholic bishops have asked the Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship — calling it an attack on “God-given human dignity.”

The brief caps a year of escalating conflict between Pope Leo and the White House.

My Fellow Catholics, It Is Time to Choose Trump and Vance have made unmistakably clear who they are. History is now waiting to see who we are.

Under Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church is leading the resistance to Donald Trump.

My Fellow Catholics, It Is Time to Choose Trump and Vance have made unmistakably clear who they are. History is now waiting to see who we are.

We cannot claim to follow a pope who calls cruelty a sin while cheering a president who calls it strength.

We cannot kneel before Christ on Sunday and then shrug on Monday as families are torn apart.

Donald Trump and JD Vance have made it clear who they are. Now we must make it clear who we are.

“The Catholic Church has always been 100% pro-law enforcement.” — Tom Homan

Trump’s Border Czar Says He’ll “Educate” Pope Leo XIV on Catholic Teaching Homan argues Leo XIV is wrong on deportations — and says his Catholic grade school education in the 1960s qualifies him to explain the faith’s “always pro–law enforcement” stance.

This is the third time Tom Homan has had a public meltdown over the Catholic Church’s teaching on deportations.

He told the late Pope Francis “to fix the Church” before talking about immigration. substack.com/home/post/p-...