Roman Catholic voters are standing by President Donald Trump amid a deep and public spat with Pope Leo XIV, according to recent polling.
Newsweek examined polls from February, March, and April, during which the pope made public his disapproval of the U.S. war against Iran.
Continued sniping from the Vatican led Trump to suggest the pope stick to matters of faith and allow American leaders to govern.
Newsweek used three Fox News polls for its sampling of Roman Catholic opinion. In the first, taken between Feb. 28 and March 2, Roman Catholic voters gave Trump a 52 percent approval rating.
A poll taken between March 20 and March 23, as the pope was criticizing Trump, showed Trump had a 48 percent approval rating among Roman Catholics.
But a third poll, conducted between April 17 and April 20, showed Trump with a 51 percent approval rating with Roman Catholics, even after he suggested the pope should rein in his comments.
White House representative Taylor Rogers suggested Roman Catholics were focused on what Trump was doing for them and not the pope’s commentary.
“There has never been a greater president for Catholic Americans than President Trump, and his record proves it,” Rogers said in a statement.
Business is good with the mullah regime. Why worry about fanatical 12-ers plotting to nuke Israel?
The German government defied US sanctions on Iran’s clerical regime on Monday, by continuing to insure its companies with export credit – 911 million euro for 58 companies.
German leader calls US-Israel-Iran war ‘completely unnecessary’
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described the US-Israel war on Iran as “completely unnecessary”.
Merz said the war was contributing to rising instability, affecting Europe, Asia and the US. He stressed that only a united Europe could respond effectively to the emerging challenges.
“We have spent two days meeting with the 27 heads of state and government of the European Union to discuss how to tackle major challenges that lie ahead, including the Iran conflict and this completely unnecessary war there, as well as many other challenges we face,” said the chancellor.
He added that Europe must adjust to shifting global conditions. “We must accept this new economic reality, however difficult it may be.”
The German Press Agency revealed the credit guarantee figure on Saturday, noting that the nearly 1 billion euros have been provided to German firms to protect their business with Iran.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has canceled a planned trip by U.S. representatives, including Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials, citing time wasted on traveling and work and describing what he called “infighting” and “confusion” within Iran’s so-called “leadership.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has departed Islamabad, Pakistan, after holding high-level meetings and delivering Tehran’s list of demands for ending the war to Pakistani officials.
US President Donald Trump later cancelled a planned trip to Pakistan by envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for peace talks with Iran saying it takes too much time and is too expensive.
The White House will say that they want to hear what the Iranians have to say, and if there is something significant, substantial, and moving towards a deal, then JD Vance and also Marco Rubio will be called over to Islamabad to essentially tie up the deal.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that we have to finish the job with Iran and “Iran may not end until we bankrupt them, just as we did the Soviet Union.”
Multiple top Iranian regime officials, including missing “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, issued statements on Thursday and Friday declaring that they are all entirely in agreement with how to move forward on the current crisis with the United States, denying the existence of political dissent.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his forces have “full freedom of action” in Lebanon despite the announcement of a three-week extension to a ceasefire, which Hezbollah has said is meaningless amid continued Israeli attacks.
Israeli forces said they killed six Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon as the Lebanese Health Ministry said the number of people killed by Israel’s attacks since March 2has risen to 2,491, with 7,719 injured.
Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” was successful beyond his wildest dreams. Now you got the second commie pope in a row, but who will tell the believers?
A viral video from rural Gunma Prefecture in December 2025 captured it perfectly: roughly 50 Pakistani migrant workers lined up in synchronized rows, kneeling in prayer on a narrow farm road for nearly two hours. An ambulance and a school bus were forced to turn around and take detours.
This wasn’t an isolated mishap.
Similar scenes have played out in Osaka during Eid prayers, where crowds spilled from mosques into streets and parking structures, and in Fukuoka, where public parks became open-air prayer halls despite nearby mosques. These are not harmless acts of devotion. They are deliberate assertions of presence, a non-violent claim on public space in one of the world’s most orderly, homogeneous societies.
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Everywhere, where people allowed Mohammedans to settle behind, what they perceive to be enemy lines, they will get this in return:
“Muslims only” housing is as illegal as FGM, honour killings, child marriage, jihad, rape of infidel women & the murder of Jews. And yet, there you have it. Just like sharia courts & polygamy. And none of these British cowards does anything about it.
A new controversy has emerged in London after the discovery of rental listings that explicitly restrict access to housing based on religion. Several ads published on digital platforms and social media include phrases such as “Muslims only” or “Muslim girls only,” raising concerns about discrimination and legal compliance.
This is not an isolated case. Independent reviews have identified multiple examples of such listings, prompting legal experts to warn of potential violations of the Equality Act 2010, which governs equal treatment in the United Kingdom. The law clearly prohibits discrimination in housing based on religion, among other protected characteristics.
The issue lies in a particularly sensitive legal area. On one hand, the principle is clear: landlords cannot exclude tenants based on their faith. On the other, limited exceptions exist in shared housing situations, where lifestyle compatibility may be considered.
Curiously, it is the government that puts out all the ‘misinformation’.
The Government just blew $20 million on an ad campaign to “combat misinformation” by telling drivers to drive less, inflate their tyres and remove their roof racks to save fuel.
Australia’s reckless renewables experiment is now in total collapse.
Families are being crushed by the highest electricity prices in the developed world. Yet Australia is sitting on the world’s greatest energy resources.
This includes the largest uranium reserves on Earth, some of the biggest coal and gas deposits anywhere and the capacity to be an energy superpower for generations. It’s on track to cost Australian taxpayers well over a trillion dollars. It is not delivering the reliable, affordable power our industries, businesses and households need to grow.
Prime farming land is being carpet-bombed with giant wind and solar factories that only work when the wind blows and the sun shines. None of it will make a measurable difference to global temperatures — Australia produces less than 1.3 % of world emissions.
This is no longer an energy policy. It is a shoddy taxpayer-funded racket that is actively dismantling the Australian economy. Any government serious about fixing this would pull the plug on the subsidies and mandates immediately and let abundant coal, gas and nuclear resources do what they were always meant to do: deliver cheap, reliable power 24/7.
Voters must send the clearest possible message at the ballot box: reject any candidate still backing these failed, economy-wrecking projects. Australia deserves better. It’s time to put the lights back on.
Craig Kelly:
THE VILLAGE IDIOT
Every village has an idiot. Australia got stuck with Chris Bowen — the undisputed champion.
Normally the village idiot is harmlessly ignored. But Bowen has somehow failed his way all the way up to Energy Minister, where he’s now a clear and present danger to the entire country. While Australia is on its knees, desperately begging the world for more oil and diesel, this out-of-touch moron struts around proclaiming “no one is calling for more fossil fuels.” Continue reading The Australian Government just blew $20 million on an ad campaign to “combat misinformation”
That is false. When Mohammedans land in EUrope, which is quickly turning into EUrabia, they are given everything their hearts desire, except sex-slaves, which is why there is a rape epidemic in EUrabia now.
Mass weaponised migration has been deliberately manipulated to destroy western civilisation – it will only continue to get worse.
Pope Leo has previously criticised US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, calling for better treatment of refugees.
Leo, who has previously attacked United States President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, called for better treatment of migrants as he flew back to Rome on Thursday following a four-nation Africa tour.
The last pope, Pope Francis, was no better than Pope Leo, and may have been been worse. Pope Francis earned the sobriquet the Pope of Islam on Jihad Watch, but Pope Leo XIV is giving him stiff competition.
There comes a point when people have had enough of being lied to, played for fools and deceived by the red-green axis of evil. The article below points out how Muslims have been persecuting Christians, and how the pope is insensitive to that fact. It isn’t Christians who are murdering Muslims for being Muslims.
The pope was already raising eyebrows with his obscene moral equivalence on his recent tour; Jihad Watch covered it HERE.
But now he is sparking outrage, not only among observers in the West, but among the persecuted Christians themselves.
Pope Leo even went so far as to warn about “turning geopolitical rivalry into a civilizational struggle between Christianity and Islam.” Hasn’t that ship sailed long ago with Islam, and for the past 1,400 years of Islamic war against every other religion? Where has Pope Leo been?
His remarks carried significance beyond a conventional appeal for peace, particularly because they came at a moment of escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel and Iran, where narratives about civilisation, religion and geopolitical loyalty have increasingly shaped public discourse.
Pope Leo, like his predecessor, is on the wrong side of history.
If Mojtaba Khamenei and his minions, or whoever is now running the Islamic Republic of Iran, actually do at some point make a deal with Trump, it also must be remembered that it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.
President Trump said today he has ordered the US Navy to take lethal action against any Iranian vessels attempting to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has granted “friendly” countries, including Russia, a fee exemption to transit the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
That kind of stuff doesn’t work with Trump.
Nothing gets in or out:
This is the Persian Gulf! You see the first blockade in the narrow area? That’s the strait of Hormuz. That’s what the terrorist Islamic regime closed to put pressure on president Trump and US to back down. But they still don’t get it that President Trump is a 3 D chess player. He closed the second area which is wider and no ship related to the terrorist Islamic regime is able to leave or enter.
This is absolutely one of the smartest moves in the modern warfare. We give the glory to God for giving President Trump wisdom, knowledge understanding and might. The Islamic regime never thought of this and are caught by surprise. They literally can’t import weapons, missile fuels, they can’t sell oil. This is like holding them by the neck. Plus because of the Islamic regime closed the strait of Hormuz, now everyone is buying expensive oil from the USA. US oil sale jumped to 5.3 million barrels per day. Military masterpiece.
Relatives carry the coffin of Haider Farhat, a Hezbollah fighter killed during the conflict with Israel, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on April 23, 2026
US President Donald Trump says he hopes to host Israeli and Lebanese leaders “in the near future”, after announcing a three-week extension to the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on Sunday.
President Trump said he is under no pressure to end his war with Iran, though time is limited for Tehran. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t – The clock is ticking!” Trump wrote on social media.
A third US aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East. The USS George HW Bush joined the USS Gerald R Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln in a massive buildup of naval firepower.
Trump gives orders to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boats placing sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the US naval siege of Iran’s ports continues, and officials in Tehran say talks will not resume until the blockade is lifted.
The black spot on Salami’s forehead is a zebiba, from banging his head on the floor when he prays to allah to help him destroy the infidels….
In a daring midnight operation, U.S. Special Forces launched a high-impact raid on a hidden Iranian naval fleet near Bandar Abbas, uncovering a top-secret IRGC compound that had been off the radar for years.
155 vessels were sunk, fast attack boats and missile craft obliterated, and high-profile figures extracted under extreme pressure. But the real bombshell came when one key figure was captured, and what they revealed could change everything.
Explosions tore through the harbor as the operation became one of the deadliest naval strikes in recent history. But what the world doesn’t know yet about this operation could send shockwaves through international security…
Can’t wish them good luck with that, but Trump isn’t going to move unless Iran submits.
Just in: After firing chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, IRGC Chief Ahmad Vahidi said Iran will continue enriching uranium, pursue its long-range missile program & continue the war until the last U.S. soldier remains in Middle East. He refused to engage in any peace talks pic.twitter.com/Qc8y3568MO
Women hold Iranian flags and a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a state-organised rally in Tehran, April 17
Several Iranian officials share same message, emphasising what they call the ‘iron unity of the nation and government’.
‘Blockade and threats’: Iran blames US siege of ports for stalled talks
Senior Iranian officials have blamed Washington for stalled peace negotiations due to the United States naval blockade of the country’s ports, while Iran’s Revolutionary Guardsays it captured two foreign vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and opened fire on a third ship for violating maritime regulations.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran wants “dialogue and agreement” but “breach of commitments, blockade and threats are the main obstacles to genuine negotiations”.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said no deadline has been set by US President Donald Trump for the extension of his ceasefire on Iran, adding that it will be the president’s decision when the truce ends.
JD Vance was supposed to be heading to Pakistan today to resume negotiations with the leaders of the Islamic Republic, but as of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, the whole thing is off, at least for now.
Just The News reported Tuesday that Vance “put off travel to Islamabad after Iran failed to respond to negotiating positions put forth by the U.S…. With no official response coming from Tehran, the diplomatic process is paused.” However, “while paused, the trip hasn’t been canceled. Iran has yet to announce a decision on whether it will participate in the scheduled talks, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Tuesday.” Continue reading Iran: US blockade must end to allow talks
