Leo, Pope and Trump
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Pope Leo has hit out at President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal and has warned that the administration risks destroying the longstanding alliance between Europe and the United States.
The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.
Pope Leo has been critical of the Trump administration's immigration policy, particularly its treatment of migrants, calling it "inhuman."
Pope Leo XIV has rebuked US President Donald Trump that his recent statements jeopardize the long-standing alliance between Europe and America. This was reported by Sky News.
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."
The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is at odds with church teaching and Pope Leo's priorities on the transatlantic alliance, climate change, immigration, arms production, nuclear weapons and more.
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.
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.