New reporting reveals the Pentagon threatened Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador over the Pope's anti-war statements:
"America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
"America," Hegseth's underlings told the cardinal, "has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."
As tempers rose, one US official reached for a 14th century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy ...
This is nuts. 🧵