Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks
Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen as another sharp escalation in his almost week-long feud with the White House over the US-Israel war on Iran.
The first American-born pontiff did not mention Donald Trump by name, but used his speech in Cameroon on Thursday to denounce world leaders that invoke religion to justify violence against other nations.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Richard Luscombe in Miami.
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