{"id":73101,"date":"2026-05-05T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-accuses-pope-of-endangering-a-lot-of-catholics-with-iran-stance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:56:12","slug":"trump-accuses-pope-of-endangering-a-lot-of-catholics-with-iran-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-accuses-pope-of-endangering-a-lot-of-catholics-with-iran-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accuses pope of \u2018endangering a lot of Catholics\u2019 with Iran stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president directs fresh criticism at pontiff days before secretary of state Marco Rubio\u2019s visit to Vatican<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/05\/iran-us-israel-lebanon-strait-of-hormuz-ships-oil-uae-latest-news-updates\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has issued another verbal attack against Pope Leo, accusing the pontiff of \u201cendangering a lot of Catholics\u201d because \u201che thinks it\u2019s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come two days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/04\/marco-rubio-to-meet-pope-leo-after-trumps-broadside-against-pontiff\">Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican<\/a> in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump\u2019s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/05\/donald-trump-accuses-pope-leo-of-endangering-a-lot-of-catholics-with-iran-stance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president directs fresh criticism at pontiff days before secretary of state Marco Rubio\u2019s visit to Vatican Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Donald Trump has issued another verbal attack against Pope Leo, accusing the pontiff of \u201cendangering a lot of Catholics\u201d because \u201che thinks it\u2019s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon\u201d. The &#8230; <a title=\"Trump accuses pope of \u2018endangering a lot of Catholics\u2019 with Iran stance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-accuses-pope-of-endangering-a-lot-of-catholics-with-iran-stance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump accuses pope of \u2018endangering a lot of Catholics\u2019 with Iran stance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}