Pope Leo responded directly to a presidential attack on Monday. But since then, he said, some of his statements during his trip to Africa have been misinterpreted.
In a brief but blunt denunciation of how the media has covered his trip to Africa, the Pope Leo XIV He told reporters on Saturday that he had no interest in continuing a debate with the President Donald Trump and that some of his statements had been misinterpreted as criticism of the President.
On Monday (April 13, 2026), at the start of his 11-day trip to four African countries, the Pope He said he had “no fear” of Trump when he responded to a extraordinary presidential broadside against him on social networks. But since then, “there has been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all its aspects,” he said the Pope to the journalists traveling on the papal plane from Cameroon to Angola today, Saturday the 17th.
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