Pope Leo, Donald Trump and New York
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The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.
Pope Leo XIV has replaced President Donald Trump's ally and conservative Cardinal Timothy Dolan with a pro-migrant leader and fellow Chicagoan. Ronald Hicks, 52, who is the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois,
Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, sidelining a prominent U.S. Church figure in a major shake-up of the country's Catholic leadership.
The American president’s Ukraine strategy is inviting “a huge change in what was for many years a true alliance between the EU and U.S.,” pontiff warns.
The pontiff responded to a controversial element in the Trump administration's new national security strategy.
Leo XIV warned that Trump's disparaging remarks about Europe and NATO could fracture the longstanding US-Europe alliance that he considers vital "today and in the future."
President Donald Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published Dec. 9 that he would be open to meeting with Pope Leo XIV and responded to the pontiff's pushback to his immigration policy.