{"id":59746,"date":"2026-04-13T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=59746"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:43:14","slug":"we-are-surrounded-by-a-delusion-of-omnipotence-thats-becoming-increasingly-unpredictable-and-aggressive-pope-leo-xiv-in-his-condemnation-of-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=59746","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are surrounded by a delusion of omnipotence that\u2019s becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.\u201d &#8212; Pope Leo XIV in his condemnation of the Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In his strongest condemnation yet of the Trump-Vance war against Iran, Pope Leo XIV said today:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are surrounded by a delusion of omnipotence that\u2019s becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are met by threats instead of invitations to come together. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dSYmfFDRGb\">pic.twitter.com\/dSYmfFDRGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherHale\/status\/2043034521055170889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 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-59746","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\/59746","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=59746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59747,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59746\/revisions\/59747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}