Threatening the Church
Christopher Hale in his 'Letters from Leo' newsletter:
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture.
“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
Read it all: The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy