Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Pope Leo XIV Rebukes Donald Trump’s Lies — and Marco Rubio Tells One of His Own

After Trump told Hugh Hewitt the pope wants Iran armed with nuclear weapons, Leo answered with the Church's sixty-year teaching against them — and Rubio scrubbed the tape on TV.

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Christopher Hale
May 06, 2026
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The pope answered — again.

On Monday night, Donald Trump went on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show and renewed his assault on Pope Leo XIV, telling the host that the first American pope is “endangering a lot of Catholics and a…

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