‘Popesplaining’ Vance out of depth in argument over whether Iran is a just war ^44%

The Guardian - By Peter Beaumont - 4/17/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 28.7% - Biased Writer Voice 21.2% - Appeal to Authority 20.6%

The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking. On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first North American to head the Catholic church and the first cleric from the Augustinian order, who this week visited the modern Algerian city where Saint Augustine once lived. For Leo, who wrote his... more