Iran’s Radical
Muslim President Praises Pope Leo XIV
for Attacking Trump — “Glory by Allah”
as Radical Islam and the Far-Left Vatican
Team Up Against America First
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
4/14/2026 9:54:15 PM
Iran’s radical Muslim President Masoud Pezeshkian has rushed to praise and defend Pope Leo XIV after the Chicago-born pontiff launched yet another attack on President Donald Trump for standing up to the bloodthirsty Iranian regime.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump delivered a blistering takedown of Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, slamming the Vatican leader as weak on crime, disastrous on foreign policy, and far too cozy with the radical left.
Trump also noted that he recently hosted the Pope’s brother, Louis, at the White House, a man who actually understands the MAGA movement.
When asked by the Associated Press about Trump’s post, Pope Leo XIV refused to back down.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/14/2026 9:59:58 PM (No. 2092717)
Blockade the Vatican.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/14/2026 10:09:20 PM (No. 2092720)
Another affirmation that I was correct to stop supporting the Catholic Church bureaucracy when the Pedophile Priests scandals broke. An organization that had to spend Million$ in wealth donated over decades by honest, hardworking parishioners, spent to compensate kids and families of kids, abused by priests who refused to keep their penises in their pants. There were SO MANY of them- don't even try to tell me that within the various groups within the church bureaucracy, that they did not know what was going on. Especially when they would pay off one victim, then 'counsel' the perp and move him to a new parish where the unsuspecting people were unaware of the perp's past evil acts.
Add to this the Catholic Charities making Million$ by contracting with the HairSniffer's minions to transport millions of Illegal Aliens throughout our America..... quietly, so that the innocent people living in the 'target' communities would not know what Evil was being released into their midst.
As far as I am concerned, the last pope, ol' Frankie, was a communist, and this new one, Leo, is no better, and perhaps worse.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/14/2026 10:10:49 PM (No. 2092721)
Am I witnessing the final downfall of my beloved Roman Catholic Church?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/14/2026 10:17:24 PM (No. 2092723)
Leo, my childhood Chicago neighbor, is such a tool. I am disappointed that the Holy Father has allowed himself to be so horribly used by evil.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
crashnburn 4/14/2026 10:22:16 PM (No. 2092725)
"Look not on my sins, but on the Faith of My Church." There have been many scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church over the centuries but as it is a Divinely Inspired Institution, it has righted itself in the past and I believe it will right itself again. We all need to pray that our Church leaders will correctly discern and follow Christ's true path.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2026 10:46:26 PM (No. 2092729)
The current pope is not the kind we need to lead a new Crusade.
He's antiChristian, proMuslim.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/14/2026 10:52:03 PM (No. 2092732)
And one wonders why Catholic Church is loathed by Catholics
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/14/2026 11:54:36 PM (No. 2092743)
Pope Leo - useful idiot to the terrorists in Iran. He's a perfect example of why religious leaders should stick to spiritual matters and keep their noses out of politics.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TCloud 4/15/2026 12:12:10 AM (No. 2092747)
The Creator of All being used as a political convenience is NOT going to work to well for those who use his Name in Vane!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/15/2026 12:24:23 AM (No. 2092749)
Pope Leo is NOT a Lion, He's a Leftist Clown.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 4/15/2026 12:27:03 AM (No. 2092750)
This alliance between the Pope and the Catholic Church and Muslims/Islam has been developing/brewing for many years. As I've said of late the Catholic church is more concerned about offending Muslims than they do about how they treat American patriots. Ever since
John Paul II, (who was a wonderful Pope who loved Jesus and the Word of God) left this world the Catholic church has made a hard Left turn.
As far as what Iran’s radical Muslim President Masoud Pezeshkian says, that's about as worth as spit. Who cares what a lunatic who wants to destroy the world so that their "messiah" will returns thinks, Give me Jesus.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
janjan 4/15/2026 12:32:24 AM (No. 2092758)
This is what happens when a global religious leader tries to influence US foreign policy. Sorry to Catholics but this loon provided a muslim prayer room in the Vatican and is trying to defend Iran. He met with a sleazy Democrat strategist. What’s it going to take to face the truth about this loon? He’s a flaming liberal.
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He now has an open invitation to visit the Vatican with unlimited use of the new muslim prayer room while there.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/15/2026 4:04:18 AM (No. 2092773)
Quick! Somebody call up the U.S. Army’s Command & General Staff College and let them know there’s a new battlefield strategy called “Genuflection Gravitas” which involves the collusion of two or more global religions, which are more interested in making money than saving souls. /s
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/15/2026 5:13:14 AM (No. 2092785)
As I mentioned before, I am catholic. For some time I have started to walk away from the Catholic church. I refuse to give them a penny and most of all I stopped attending mass. Pope Leo is the last straw. I plan to look for another religion to worship. I'm done. The Catholic religion lost me and many others. When this Pope turned his back on the poor christians that are being murdered in Nigeria by MUSLIMS, makes me very ill.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/15/2026 5:39:00 AM (No. 2092791)
His "Holiness" My ASS! What a hypocrite POS! Supporting a nation who just murdered forty-five THOUSAND of it's own people! The only Peace he's interested in; is the Piece of baby boy, behind the veil of the Vatican!
Sleazy John of Vatican II fame which changed (lessened) the regulation of priests and allowed homosexuals into the brotherhood created the hell hole of pedophiles the Vatican has become!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/15/2026 5:40:13 AM (No. 2092792)
#3 YES you are...All brought to you by John 23!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/15/2026 5:40:45 AM (No. 2092793)
Let's hear more about David Axelrod's (Obama's Non-Catholic Senior Advisor) little trip to visit the Pope a week or so ago.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
goodbyedems 4/15/2026 5:52:11 AM (No. 2092796)
Wow!! if only this much scorn was heaped on the media, Schumer, Jefferies et al ...the cheerleaders for Iran's victory and demise of U.S. success.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/15/2026 6:43:46 AM (No. 2092809)
The Pope is now being used by Iran. He foolishly placed himself in this position with his leftist themes.
He will lose a lot of Catholics, but true believers in the Church will stick with it, the Church and not the Pope. I believe in the Church, the Mass that has been carried on for centuries.
Leo isn't the first bad Pope, he probably will not be the last. He is proof that the Pope is just a man and not some holy man who actually speaks to God. Just as the Muslim Mullahs do not speak to their Pedophile.
Just a man a fallible man. who was elected by other fallible men.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Msquared112 4/15/2026 6:56:09 AM (No. 2092814)
I must ask if the Pope actually knows what Iran has been doing to their people and to Israel these last years? Why make such an ignorant statement. He's unleashed some real damage to the Papacy by such intemperate statements. Iran has vowed "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". The Pope's remarks downplay this. Bad move.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Msquared112 4/15/2026 6:59:19 AM (No. 2092815)
#15, one doesn't "worship" a religion. One worships God. Maybe that was just a misprint on your part.
That aside, I wonder how many Catholics are embarrassed by this new Pope, whom some of us believed would be an improvement.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/15/2026 7:10:05 AM (No. 2092817)
When JFK, the first Catholic was running for President, there were fears expressed that the Pope would run Foreign Policy. After 66 years we find that he is trying to run immigration policy as well.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
walcb 4/15/2026 7:22:09 AM (No. 2092826)
#15 look into the Apostolic Christian Church--there aren't a lot of them
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/15/2026 7:32:55 AM (No. 2092836)
Religious fanatics of any stripe are dangerous and destructive.
Leo needs to remember where the Lion's Share of the money comes from to keep the Catholic Church afloat and the Vatican enjoying its lavish lifestyle. I don't think too much of it comes from Iran.
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I have always believed that the false prophet, who helps the antichrist in the book of Revelation, might very well be the pope. The closer we get to the end times, the more things become clear. Try reading that small book this week. It is the only book in the Bible that offers a blessing, just for reading it!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MakingSense 4/15/2026 8:05:01 AM (No. 2092864)
Has anyone told this clueless Trump hating Pope that these Iranian lunatics have literally murdered thousands of their own citizens?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
red1066 4/15/2026 8:10:33 AM (No. 2092868)
This just means we haven't killed enough of them yet.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/15/2026 8:14:52 AM (No. 2092871)
Leo XIV might as well charge his name to Napoleon XIV of "They're Coming to Take Me Away" fame. If anything, he's more off base than his commie predecessor. The pope's socialism, communism, and friendliness to radical Islam indicate that he's in the wrong business, and that the Roman Catholic Church has made a bad choice in him. If this pope really is what he appears to be, he isn't a Christian, and he isn't even saved! Pray that he resigns soon.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 4/15/2026 8:44:08 AM (No. 2092902)
Folks... I will tell you the absolute truth about the Pope...
He is a political figure elected by political players in a political organization.
Jesus NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER bestowed upon Peter any special title of authority OTHER than being a Apostle. Jesus NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER said that He would build his Church upon PETER. Period.
Peter told Jesus "You are the Christ..." and Jesus' statement after that proclamation was that the Church would be built upon the rock of that TRUTH. Not PETER.
Theologically there is NO wiggle room for the existence of any special man who stands as any kind of intermediary between God and man OTHER than Jesus Himself. EVERY other man, woman and child is on totally equal standing as a creature standing before their Creator.
The pope is a theological absurdity. The pope actually dilutes the deity of Christ and falsely increases the notion of the deity of man.
If you understand what I am saying then you can look at the entire sordid history of the Catholic Church and rightly shrug it off as just another example of people being people in a lost world.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/15/2026 9:10:50 AM (No. 2092911)
Sorry for the second post.
#22, I misspoke when I said "I plan to look for another religion to worship". I meant to say that I plan to find another religion that I feel comfortable to attend to worship God.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
chagrined 4/15/2026 9:58:41 AM (No. 2092942)
From the look of the responses here, I'm assuming everyone remembers the adage, "Is the Pope Catholic?". I guess we may not be able to use that cliche anymore.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/15/2026 10:14:23 AM (No. 2092949)
Roman Catholic dogma apparently pronounces that a Pope is to be considered infallible when he is involved in directing Catholic spiritual religious issues. But when a Pope strays and involves himself in worldly politics he is just another worldly politician giving his opinion. In other words, the old saying “what is God’s is God’s and what is Caesar’s is Caesar’s” applies.
The Pope getting himself involved in Worldly politics appearing to give support to the mad Mullahs of Iran in their current conflict with Israel and the USA cannot be good for the Catholic Church in the USA. When chances are, at least half of all Catholics in the USA support and voted for Trump, who as the US Commander in Chief, after receiving accurate intelligence information, along with confirmation by Iranian Government officials themselves, that the mad Mullahs of Iran were just about to have nuclear weapons in their arsenal. That common sense will tell you the mad Mullahs of Iran they could use against Israel, the other Middle East countries, the European countries, including the Vatican, and ultimately the continental USA. To alleviate that great potential menace, Trump has been using military force against Iran and has also moved onto economic warfare against Iran, designed insure that the mad Mullahs of Iran do not keep any nuclear weapons at their disposal and to keep the Strait of Hormuz, a very important international waterway, opened to all countries.
You would think that any Pope would stay away from worldly politics connected to the Iran conflict as the Islamic law no doubt followed by the mad Mullahs of Iran, that they think allows them to order any citizen of Iran or foreigner to be killed who opposes their catastrophic military and political actions and policies resulting in reportedly about forty five thousand Iranian protesters recently being killed on the streets of Iran by the Iranian Government. Those Islamic laws also provide that any Christians and Jews who refuse to convert to Islam should face death. So you have to ask why any Pope would appear to side with the mad Mullahs of Iran against Israel and the USA?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/15/2026 10:27:51 AM (No. 2092959)
Just add it to the list of reasons why I left the Catholic Church.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/15/2026 10:34:43 AM (No. 2092966)
Sorry, #30, but that statement simply isn’t true. Peter is a Greek word meaning rock or stone. Jesus’ message was quite clear, when he changed Simon’s name. Unfortunately, there have been too many bad popes throughout history, but it doesn’t change the fact that Jesus’ intention was to have someone lead the Church. How that role evolved is purely human.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/15/2026 10:52:22 AM (No. 2092988)
Not since WW II has the Vatican been so exposed. The leadership of the church is so corrupted by Marxism that it is a wonder that Catholicism is considered Christian at all. There are strong minority voices within the Church, but they are barely audible in the current climate.
I long for the days of Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul. Together they set the wheels in motion that destroyed the USSR. President Trump has his supporters, but the tide is strong against his efforts. We must all rally around his vision.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/15/2026 11:03:00 AM (No. 2092992)
I'm so relieved I tore up my 'Catholic ID' card decades ago.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/15/2026 11:52:26 AM (No. 2093029)
Leo will have to live with this.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 4/15/2026 12:16:46 PM (No. 2093042)
Leo getting as insufferable as his predesessor.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/15/2026 12:49:54 PM (No. 2093064)
Remember that DOGE discovered how various "Religious Organizations" were making hundreds of millions per year through donations/funds handed out by USAID/Treasury Dept. for taking in and processing local migrants, legal and otherwise. It was pretty much, fill out and submit a form, and the Feds cut 'em a check. So of course they'd like that "gravy train" to keep on rolling, and Iran would desperately like to settle even more of their trained terrorists inside the U.S. for disruptions.
Suffice it to say, "Terrorism and Greed makes for strange bedfellows."
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/15/2026 2:23:06 PM (No. 2093094)
Just add it to the reasons my wife and I never joined the Catholic Church.
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Hey, Leo, you realize that if the Caliphate wins YOU would be the first to "go..." don't you?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 4/15/2026 4:49:56 PM (No. 2093161)
If you call yourself Christian, know your theology. Defend it, vociferously, without pause. Islam uses taqiyyah as endorsed by their little godling. Know the Truth of Christ.
This is the introduction of "Chrislam," an AntiChrist if there ever was one. When the RCC talks of its triumphalism now, its not going to have the same meaning ever again because this Pope allowed the Destroyers into the gates.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
msjena 4/15/2026 7:00:48 PM (No. 2093194)
The Pope needs to avoid becoming a useful idiot.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
jameshvarney 4/15/2026 7:42:14 PM (No. 2093203)
I never thought I'd see the day that the Pope would praise terrorists.
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Perhaps Pope what's-his-name (didn't give a darn after Leo) would like to open a outlying wing of the Vatican near Mecca or better yet, Qom. And live there full time. I suspect a new pope would be needed in a very short time thanks to his beloved muslims.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
msjena 4/16/2026 12:20:25 PM (No. 2093401)
Has the Pope criticized Russian which just killed 18 including a child in a drone attack?
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