Donald Trump’s latest feud with Pope Leo XIV is the rawest rupture in modern memory, but DC has long been at odds with the Holy See

US President Donald Trump is once again at odds with the Vatican, this time hurling personal attacks and wild insults at Pope Leo XIV.

Conflicts between the White House and the Vatican, however, are nothing new. From John Paul II’s open defiance of George W. Bush over the Iraq war to heated exchanges between Pope Francis and Trump over migration, pontiffs have rarely shied away from public clashes with the man in the Oval Office.

With over 60 million adherents in the United States alone, the Roman Catholic Church…

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