The Pope v the President: How Leo became Trump’s fearless foe

“I have no fear of the Trump administration,” the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church said this week, as he became a global rallying point for critics of the US President. In the past few days, Pope Leo XIV, a low-profile cardinal just a year ago, has traded barbs with Mr Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world. The dispute is more reminiscent of the rivalry between mediaeval popes and emperors than of the Vatican-White House co-operation that helped win the Cold War. “We are not politicians – we don’t deal with foreign policy with the same perspective…