New Delhi, April 9 -- Donald Trump-led US government threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy, according to Letters from Leo report. Pope Leo XIV's then-ambassador to the United States, Cardinal Christophe Pierre was summoned by US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby in January. This development came in the backdrop of foreign policy disagreements and first American-born pope's opposition to the Trump-Vance mass deportation regime.

Alarmed by the Pentagon's move, Vatican officials dropped plans for Pope Leo XIV's visit to the United States later this year. According to The Free Press and The Letters from Leo report, Colby and other officials tried to influence and intimidate the Catholic Church to make th...