{"id":219770,"date":"2026-05-25T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:01:02","slug":"pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope criticizes Trump administration over &#8216;outdated&#8217; idea of a &#8216;just war&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/\">Pope criticizes Trump administration over &#8216;outdated&#8217; idea of a &#8216;just war&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/\">https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 09:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.timesofisrael.com\">www.timesofisrael.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV labeled &#8220;outdated&#8221; the concept of a &#8220;just war&#8221; proposed by Trump\u2019s administration, emphasizing that &#8220;humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In his first encyclical, Leo focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, but also reaffirmed his anti-war message, calling for dialogue and diplomacy over war.<\/li>\n<li>He condemned Trump\u2019s threat to destroy Iran as \u201ctruly unacceptable,\u201d urging Americans to demand peace from their lawmakers.<\/li>\n<li>The pope received criticism from Trump, who accused Leo of being &#8220;WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,&#8221; but Leo defended his moral duty to speak out.<\/li>\n<li>Despite Trump\u2019s and US Vice President JD Vance\u2019s use of the &#8220;just war&#8221; argument, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church\u2019s mission to \u201cpreach peace\u201d and urged more effective tools for conflict resolution like diplomacy and forgiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Efforts to repair relations between the Vatican and the Trump administration included a meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the pope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope criticizes Trump administration over &#8216;outdated&#8217; idea of a &#8216;just war&#8217; https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pope-criticizes-trump-administration-over-outdated-idea-of-a-just-war\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26145398322758.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219772,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219770\/revisions\/219772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}