{"id":59396,"date":"2026-04-10T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=59396"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:36:49","slug":"the-pentagon-summoned-the-popes-ambassador-to-a-closed-door-meeting-and-threatened-him-named-official-on-record-undersecretary-of-defense-elbridge-colby-called-cardinal-christophe-pierre-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=59396","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon summoned the Pope\u2019s ambassador to a closed-door meeting and threatened him. Named official. On record. Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby called Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon and delivered this message: \u201cThe United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 The Pentagon summoned the Pope\u2019s ambassador to a closed-door meeting and threatened him.<\/p>\n<p>Named official. On record.<\/p>\n<p>Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby called Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon and delivered this message:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States has the military\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXwWFaVxUg\">pic.twitter.com\/GXwWFaVxUg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allenanalysis\/status\/2042306865019961353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59397,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59396\/revisions\/59397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}