The first American Pope has not shied away from making comments that could be perceived as political, but this week Pope Leo weighed in on the American president by name for the first time. The pontiff spoke to CNN’s Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb & urged President Trump to search for an off-ramp in the war in Iran.

Pope Leo led a candle-lit service with thousands of Catholics inside Rome's famed Colosseum on Friday evening that featured prayers for war orphans ​and deported immigrant children, and a warning to ...