Mild-mannered and measured no longer: US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iran's centuries-old civilisation was the red line that prompted Pope Leo to show his colours, analysts say.
Leo XIV, the first US pope, had been largely leaving criticism of the Trump administration -- from its warmongering to crackdown on immigrants -- to US bishops.
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