Why has US President Donald Trump fallen out with the Pope? | The Global Story

Pope Leo XIV has said he has “no fear of the Trump administration”, after his criticism of the Iran war drew scorn from President Donald Trump.

On Sunday, the US President called the Pope “weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy”, and posted a now-deleted AI image of himself depicted as a Christ-like figure.The posts caused outrage among Catholics and the religious right, but he has said he will not apologise to the Pope.

We speak to BBC presenter and author Edward Stourton, who has reported on religious affairs and US politics for decades, about what happens when an American president takes on an American Pope.

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00:00 Introduction
01:11 Feud timeline so far
06:28 Confrontation between
08:02 Pope Leo, the diplomat
10:01 American Catholicism
12:36 The ‘eternal’ viewpoint of the church
13:42 Pope John Paul II comparisons
14:40 Religious rhetoric around the war in Iran
16:48 American evangelisms relationship with the Pope
17:47 Donald Trump’s use of Christian imagery
19:50 Who is really the most powerful American in the world?