{"id":4463,"date":"2026-04-10T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:56:05","slug":"heres-why-us-born-pope-leo-will-not-visit-america-while-trump-is-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why US-born Pope Leo will not visit America while Trump is president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of standing beside Donald Trump at a flag\u2011draped celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV is expected to stand on the rocky shores of Lampedusa, greeting exhausted migrants stepping off crowded boats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contrast is deliberate and unmistakable: one leader marking national power, the other highlighting human vulnerability. For the first American pope, birthplace is not destiny; conscience is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5216 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hnsviral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vdscd-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"998\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His years as a missionary in Peru, his sharp criticism of mass deportations, and his warnings against a \u201cdiplomacy based on force\u201d have brought him into open tension with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A summoned envoy at the Pentagon, a declined July 4 invitation, and a Vatican official quietly suggesting he may never visit the U.S. under this administration all point in one direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a scheduling dispute. It is a moral line, drawn in public, and held in silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of standing beside Donald Trump at a flag\u2011draped celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV is expected to stand on the rocky shores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}