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Relations between the United States and the Catholic Church have not been the same since January, when senior U.S. defense officials shared an abrasive message with a Vatican official. Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture “The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the fourteenth century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission, ordering an attack on Pope Boniface VIII that led to his downfall and subsequent death and forcing the papacy to relocate from Rome to Avignon, a region inside France. The Trump administration had taken issue with the pope’s critique of its militaristic proclivities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top Pentagon officials were particularly aggrieved by portions of Leo’s January 9 speech in which the pope argued that “a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force,” and that “war is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading.” The pope’s address was dissected line by line and interpreted as a hostile message toward the administration, reported Letters from Leo Substack writer Christopher Hale. It was difficult not to interpret Leo’s comments as an immediate commentary on Donald Trump’s second administration, which had at that point bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, kidnapped Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, fiercely advocated for the dissolution of NATO, and threatened America’s allies, including claiming that the U.S. would seize control of Canada and Greenland. But the blatant intimidation tactic is the first of its kind ever made by American officials to the Catholic Church. There are no public records of any previous meetings between Vatican and U.S. officials at the Pentagon, let alone an instance in which the world power suggested that it could force the Bishop of Rome into captivity. The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo canceled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.” Tensions had not been mended by February, when the Holy See rejected the White House’s invitation to host Pope Leo—the religious order’s first U.S.-born pontiff—for America’s 250th anniversary in July. Instead, the Catholic leader has arranged to visit a very different locale on July 4: Lampedusa, a tiny island between Tunisia and Sicily where North African immigrants wash ashore by the thousands. Robert Francis Prevost is too deliberate a man to have chosen that date by accident,” commented Hale The White House has dismissed the entire account, writing in a statement to reporter Barbara Starr that “the Free Press’s characterization of the meeting is highly exaggerated and distorted.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-trump-212552754.html
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Mad man jam mad man nah him be odogwu. |
Cannabis junkie. Go collect your brown envelope from your oga idiot. Sowere The only opposition against the opposition. Is that not madness. |
Says who. We know their type and providence will finally crush them. yarimo: |
1993 is repeating it self. But we will overcome them by our testimony. |
"Nigeria is fantastically corrupt" those were the words of David Cameron. Nigeria is in a political quagmire again and as usually activist will show support for or against the issue. The battle for the soul of Nigeria democracy is at stake. Yet sowore and Adeyanju that claims to be opposition are nowhere on site.. Only time will tell. Just as time has exposed NADECO as a fraud. The real opposition will emerge victorious. By God's power.
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Wow. A true legend. These are the foundation of Nollywood. RIP legend. |
Abomination what type of father is that. Why can't the man pay prostitutes for sex. If he's so sex starved. People like this needs yo be flogged publicly. |
NADECO deceived us before NADECO can't deceive us again. We say no to one party system. |
If you are talking about the( S. A. P) structural adjustment program. It was a combination of subsidy, grants, scholarships and mortgages. Which the IBB introduce. Till date aside GEJ SURE-P which other goverment program matched SAP. Back then NADECO critised SAP but today they are in power. They have removed subsidy.they have removed corruption. They have put 24hrs of light. They have granted press freedom. Nigerians are now eating 3 Square meal a day. What a time to be a Nigerian. ![]() Ballmer: |
That was a bomb back then the dethroning of sultan. Those were the days my brother no bandit no herdsman just obey the last orderGotocourt: |
Don't mind the liar. Come online to vomit nonsense. happney65: |
Nigerians are now longing for military days. A time when it was fun to travel by road. |
Who is going where what area of Abuja do you stay. seunmsg: |
You might be nicodemus or ![]() Karlovich: |
Nigerians and crime. Must your impress anyone. |
Please be candid with your opinion. Let people know your taughts. |
Do you still remember Easter celebration under these men and which of them was you favorite. For me General Ibrahim badamosi babangida is my favorite. During his time cost of living was cheap. Then recreational centres like Apapa Amusement park Bar beach Federal Palace hotel National theater Will come alive with families having fun during Easter. Nobody remembered who was ruling us, except politicians, who are now become worse than the military they often criticised. During holidays like Easter families rich and poor could afford to go picnicking on bar beach Or swimming at federal Palace Or my favorite going to apapa amusement park Or watching troupes at national theater igamu.. I can still remember paying 50kobo gate fee to swim at federal Palace Hotel. What a time to be a Nigerian. So How have your easter been. Fun, sober, violent and depressing.
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Something fishy is going on. Nafiu should tell us who his sponsors are. If nafiu acknowledged proceedings from the meet. Therefore he is privy to it |
Dont mind the hypocrite. I don't know what he's trying to prove. Just today Russian drones bombarded Kiev. Yet he did nothing. smallsmall: |
Expert sometimes fall and the price is high. Beautifulday: |
Everybody will tackle their own first. This is common sense.Thank you for you input this is all that matters. JuanDeDios: |
I'm scared that his distraction are getting Ukrainians kill. Moreso what about the Russian invasion. PrinceOfLagos: |
Tell me what you'll do. You came back from work and you see your house on fire and a friends house was on fire too. Which of the houses will you extinguish. JuanDeDios: |
I'm so so sorry for you. You don't know who you're talking to. Toktee: |
But you've read the news of Ukraine burying the men in numbers. Nlfpmod Seun Mynd44 Lordly13: |
I'm beginning to hate this man. He's been talking too much of recent to matters that doesn't concern him. Thousands of Ukrainian men have been buried and many will suffer similar fate. Yet Strait of hormuz is your priority. I think its time Ukrainians be asking Zelensky what is your plan to end Russian siege |
‘Ukraine has expertise concerning sea waterways, and the defence and reopening of maritime traffic,’ says president. What we know on day 1,500https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-expertise-waterways-open-middle-east-conflict
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Those were the days my brother no bandit no herdsman just obey the last order