Trump calls Pope Leo ‘terrible’ in direct attack on Church leader

US President Donald Trump forcefully criticized Pope Leo late on Sunday in an unusual, direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church that drew immediate rebuke from believers.The president, in an apparent response to the pope’s growing criticisms of the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies, said Leo was “terrible.”For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.Catholics on social media quickly lambasted Trump for attacking the leader of their Church, who they believe is the successor of St. Peter, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles."There is no ambiguity about the situation now,” Massimo Faggioli, an expert on the papacy, told Reuters.He compared the comments to efforts by the leaders of Germany and Italy during World War Two to draw the late Pope Pius XII to support their causes.“Not even

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